Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.

New American Standard Bible

For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”

King James Version

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Holman Bible

Those who turn justice into wormwood
throw righteousness to the ground.

International Standard Version

Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:

A Conservative Version

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

American Standard Version

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Amplified


“For those [shall be consumed] who turn justice into wormwood (bitterness)
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”

Bible in Basic English

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Darby Translation

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

King James 2000

You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!

Modern King James verseion

You who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye turn the law to wormwood, and cast down righteousness into the ground.

NET Bible

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

New Heart English Bible

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

The Emphasized Bible

Ye who turn, into, wormwood, justice, and, righteousness - to the ground have let fall.

Webster

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth,

World English Bible

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Youngs Literal Translation

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לענה 
La`anah 
Usage: 8

and leave off
ינח 
Yanach 
Usage: 0

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

A Lament And Call To Repentance

6 Seek ye Jehovah and live, lest he shall break through the house of Joseph as fire, and devour, and none quenching to the house of God. 7 Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth. 8 He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:



Cross References

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

Psalm 125:5

And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.

Isaiah 10:1

Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor;

Isaiah 59:13-14

Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood.

Ezekiel 3:20

And in the just turning back from his justice and doing evil, and I gave a stumbling-block before his face, he shall die: for thou didst not admonish him, in his sins he shall die, and his justice shall not be remembered which he did; and his blood will I seek from thy hand.

Ezekiel 18:24

And in the just turning back from his justice, and doing iniquity according to all the abominations which the unjust one did, will he do and live? all his justices which he did shall not be remembered: in his transgression which he transgressed and in his sins which he sinned, in them he shall die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And thou, son of man, say to the sons of my people, The justice of the just shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: and the injustice of the unjust, he shall not stumble in it in the day of his turning back from his injustice; and the just shall not be able to live in the day of his sinning.

Ezekiel 33:18

In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them.

Hosea 10:4

They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field

Amos 5:11-12

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

Habakkuk 1:12-14

Art thou not from of old, O Jehovah, my holy God? We shall not die. O Jehovah, thou didst set him for judgment; and O Rock, thou didst found him for correction.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.

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