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There are some who turn justice into wormwood,[a]
    who throw righteousness to the ground.

There is one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
    who turns the shadow of death into morning,
    who darkens day into night,
    who summons the waters of the seas,
    who pours them out upon the face of the earth—
    the Lord is his name.
He causes destruction to flash against a stronghold,
    and destruction comes upon a fortress.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Wormwood is a toxic, bitter-tasting substance (absinthe).