Amos 5:7
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui convertitis in absinthium judicium, et justitiam in terra relinquitis) :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ ποιῶν εἰς ὕψος κρίμα, καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰς γῆν ἔθηκεν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַהֹפְכִ֥ים לְלַעֲנָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה לָאָ֥רֶץ הִנִּֽיחוּ
Haydock's commentary
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)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.