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Amos 5:24

JusticeIntegrityPoverty and the vulnerable

22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

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BSB
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
KJV
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
WEB
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
ASV
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
DARBY
but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.
BLB
And let justice roll like the waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
ÅB
Men dommen skal komme veltende som vann, og rettferdigheten som en alltid strømmende bekk.
OTB
Men la rettferdighet strømme som en elv,
og rettferdighet som en alltid flytende bekk.
B1930
Men dommen skal komme veltende som vann, og rettferdigheten som en alltid strømmende bekk.

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Cross references

  • Micah 6:8

    He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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  • Jeremiah 22:3

    This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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  • Proverbs 21:3

    To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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  • Hosea 6:6

    For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

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  • Mark 12:32–34

    “Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,

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  • Amos 5:14–15

    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

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  • Amos 5:7

    There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

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  • Job 29:12–17

    because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

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