Do all the workers of injustice (A)not know,
Who (B)devour my people as they eat bread,
And (C)do not call upon the Lord?

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22 (A)For My people are foolish,
They do not know Me;
They are foolish children
And have no understanding.
They are skillful at (B)doing evil,
But they do not know how to do good.”

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For those who turn (A)justice into wormwood,
And [a]throw righteousness to the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Lit they have thrown

12 Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one [a]plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned (A)justice into poison,
And the fruit of righteousness into [b]wormwood,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Another reading is plow the sea with oxen
  2. Amos 6:12 I.e., bitterness

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