Verse
Amos 5:24 — But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty…
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”
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The verses around Amos 5:24.
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Verse explanation
“Let judgment run down as waters” is God’s answer to rituals and feasts performed without real justice: what he wants is not more ceremony, it is for justice to actually function in everyday life, like a river that never stops.
From the Amos 5 study in Bible in Stories.
Amos 5:24 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Corra porém o juizo como as aguas, e a justiça como o ribeiro impetuoso.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Em vez disso, corra o juízo como as águas, e a justiça como um ribeiro impetuoso.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Prefiero hagan fluir la justicia como agua, y que hacer el bien fluya como un río inagotable.
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In other languages: Português (Amós 5:24) · Español (Amós 5:24)
More verses about justice
- Micah 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to…
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Psalms 89:14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
- Proverbs 21:3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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