Amos 5:24

22 Though 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.

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Micah 6:8

    He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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  • Jeremiah 22:3

    Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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  • Proverbs 21:3

    To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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  • Hosea 6:6

    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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  • Mark 12:32–34

    And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

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  • Amos 5:14–15

    Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

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  • Amos 5:7

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

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  • Job 29:12–17

    Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

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