Amos 5:7
Read Amos 5:7 Using Other Translations
What does Amos 5:7 mean?
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood
This seems to be spoken to kings and judges, as Aben Ezra and
Kimchi observe; in whose hands is the administration of justice,
and who often pervert it, as these did here addressed and
complained of; that which was the most useful and salubrious, and
so the most desirable to the commonwealth, namely, just judgment,
was changed into the reverse, what was as bitter and as
disagreeable as wormwood; or "hemlock", as it might be rendered,
and as it is in ( Amos 6:12 ) ; even
injustice: and leave off righteousness in the
earth;
leave off doing it among men: or rather, "leave [it] on the
earth" F3; who cast it down to the ground,
trampled upon it, and there left it; which is expressive not only
of their neglect, but of their contempt of it; see ( Daniel 8:12 ) .
F3 (wxynh) "in terram prosterunt", Piscator; "justitiam in terram reliquerunt, i.e. humi prosternitis et deseritis", Mercerus; "collocantes humi", Junius & Tremellius.
