Teks -- Amos 5:7 (NET)

5:7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

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Wesley: Amo 5:7 - Ye

Rulers and judges.

Wesley: Amo 5:7 - Judgment

The righteous sentence of the law.

Wesley: Amo 5:7 - To wormwood

Proverbially understood; bitterness, injustice and oppression.

Wesley: Amo 5:7 - Leave off

Make to cease in your courts of judicature.

JFB: Amo 5:7 - turn judgment to wormwood

That is, pervert it to most bitter wrong. As justice is sweet, so injustice is bitter to the injured. "Wormwood" is from a Hebrew root, to "execrate," on account of its noxious and bitter qualities.

JFB: Amo 5:7 - leave on righteousness in . . . earth

MAURER translates, "cast righteousness to the ground," as in Isa 28:2; Dan 8:12.

Clarke: Amo 5:7 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood - Who pervert judgment; causing him who obtains his suit to mourn sorely over the expenses he has incurred in gaining his right.

Calvin: Amo 5:7 - NO PHRASE

Here the Prophet, after having inveighed against superstitions, comes to the second table of the law. The Prophets are sometimes wont to shake off self-complacencies from hypocrites, when they spread before God their external veils, by saying that all their ceremonies are useless, except accompanied with integrity of heart: but in this place the Prophet expressly condemns in the Israelites two things; that is, that they had corrupted the true worship of God, departed from the doctrine of the law, and polluted themselves with ungodly superstitions; and he also reprehends them for their wicked and dishonest conduct towards men, — for their disregard of what was right and equitable, — for plunder, cruelty, and fraud. This second subject the Prophet handles, when he says, that they converted judgment into wormwood and allowed righteousness to fall on the ground. But the rest I must defer till tomorrow.

TSK: Amo 5:7 - turn // leave

turn : Amo 5:11, Amo 5:12, Amo 6:12; Deu 29:18; Isa 1:23, Isa 5:7, Isa 10:1, Isa 59:13, Isa 59:14; Hos 10:4; Hab 1:12-14

leave : Psa 36:3, Psa 125:5; Eze 3:20, Eze 18:24, Eze 33:12, Eze 33:13, Eze 33:18; Zep 1:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Amo 5:7 - Ye // Judgment // Wormwood // Leave off righteousness // In the earth

Ye rulers and judges.

Judgment the righteous sentence of the law, the equity of it, which is sweet and pleasing to just men, and safe for all.

Wormwood proverbially understood, bitterness, grief, injustice, and oppression.

Leave off righteousness make it to cease in your courts of judicature, and tread it under foot.

In the earth or among men, in the land: the latter part of this verse explains the former.

Haydock: Amo 5:7 - You

You. Septuagint, "the Lord, [God] who does judgment on high, and has placed justice on the earth; ( 8 ) who maketh and transformeth all things, and turneth," &c. (Haydock) ---

Hebrew agrees with the Vulgate. (Calmet)

Gill: Amo 5:7 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood // and leave off righteousness in the earth

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 Amo 6:12; even injustice:

and leave off righteousness in the earth; leave off doing it among men: or rather, "leave it on the earth" ^c; 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 Dan 8:12.