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Amos 5:7

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial

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KJV ORIGINAL

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

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

You people who twist justice into something bitter and toxic, and just completely abandon doing what's right in this world,

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

When you corrupt justice and ditch doing right, you're poisoning everything around you.

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When he was completely humiliated, even basic fairness was stripped away from him. Who could even begin to describe what his family line would become? Because his life was cut short — taken right off this earth.

Do horses gallop on cliffs? Would anyone try to plow rocky ground with oxen? Of course not — that would be absolutely ridiculous. But that's exactly how backwards you've made things. You've turned justice into something bitter and poisonous, and you've made doing what's right feel toxic.

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