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You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
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The Poison of Injustice
Commentators explain that “turning justice to wormwood” is a powerful metaphor. Justice, which should be a source of social health and sweetness, was being transformed by Israel's leaders into something bitter and poisonous. Righteousness was not just neglected but actively “cast down to the earth” to be trampled underfoot.
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Amos
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You who turn - Those whom he calls to seek God were people filled with all injustice, who turned the sweetness of justice into the bitternes…
19th Century
Anglican
It is placed after Amos 5:9 by Ewald, since Amos 5:7-8 stand in the Hebrew text without any connecting link. The holy thing “judgment” is perverted…
Baptist
Here you have another great truth—that, in order to seek God correctly, we must turn away from sin. All the ritualism in the world will not save us…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet, after having spoken strongly against superstitions, comes to the second table of the law. The Prophets are sometimes accustomed t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You who turn judgment to wormwood This seems to be spoken to kings and judges, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe; in whose hands…
The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of…
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