Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! New Living Translation Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living. English Standard Version But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Berean Standard Bible But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. King James Bible But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. New King James Version But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream. New American Standard Bible “But let justice roll out like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. NASB 1995 “But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. NASB 1977 “But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Legacy Standard Bible But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amplified Bible “But let justice run down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly]. Christian Standard Bible But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream. Holman Christian Standard Bible But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.” American Standard Version But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And judgment shall be brought forth as the waters and righteousness as a mighty torrent Brenton Septuagint Translation But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent. Contemporary English Version But let justice and fairness flow like a river that never runs dry. Douay-Rheims Bible But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. English Revised Version But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. GOD'S WORD® Translation But let justice flow like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Good News Translation Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry. International Standard Version "But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river. JPS Tanakh 1917 But let justice well up as waters, And righteousness as a mighty stream. Literal Standard Version And judgment rolls on as waters, | And righteousness as a perennial stream. Majority Standard Bible But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. New American Bible Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream. NET Bible Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up. New Revised Standard Version But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. New Heart English Bible But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Webster's Bible Translation But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. World English Bible But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Young's Literal Translation And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Day of the LORD…23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. 25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?… Cross References Isaiah 48:18 If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea. 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. Ezekiel 45:9 For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.' Amos 5:23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 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? Treasury of Scripture But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. let. Amos 5:7,14,15 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, … Job 29:12-17 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him… Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. run. Jump to Previous Ever-Flowing Judgment Justice Mighty Perennial Right Righteousness River Rivers Roll Rolling Run Stream WatersJump to Next Ever-Flowing Judgment Justice Mighty Perennial Right Righteousness River Rivers Roll Rolling Run Stream WatersAmos 5 1. A lamentation for Israel.4. An exhortation to repentance. 21. God rejects their hypocritical service. (24) Mighty stream.--Or rather perennial stream.Verse 24. - But let judgment run down as waters; let judgment roll on; Septuagint, καὶ κυλισθήσεται ὡς ὕδωρ κρίμα, "and judgment shall roll along as water." Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium (Vulgate). This verse has been explained in different ways. Hitzig, Keil, with many ancient commentators, find in it a threat of chastisement, "the flooding of the land with judgment and the punitive righteousness of God." Pusey, Professor Gandell, and others consider it to be a call to amendment. "He bids them let judgment, which had hitherto been perverted in its course, roll on like a mighty tide of waters, sweeping before it all hindrances," filling the whole land with righteousness. Schegg makes it to be a promise of the coming of the day of the Lord, that is, the revelation of Messiah. But such a promise in this position is very forced and unnatural. The second interpretation seems most suitable. In the midst of the denunciation of men's formal worship, the prophet announces their duty in the present crisis, attention to which could alone win God's favour. Judgment and righteousness, long neglected and forgotten, should permeate the land like refreshing streams of water - a simile of special signification to an inhabitant of an Eastern country, where the neighbourhood of a perennial stream was as delightful as it was unusual. Mighty (ethan); ἄβατος, "impassable" (Septuagint); fortis (Vulgate). The word may mean "strong," or "perennial." "Whence the seventh month, just before the early rain, was called the month Ethanim, i.e. the month of the perennial streams, when they alone flowed" (Pusey). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But let justiceמִשְׁפָּ֑ט (miš·pāṭ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style roll on וְיִגַּ֥ל (wə·yig·gal) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1556: To roll, roll away like a river, כַּמַּ֖יִם (kam·ma·yim) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen and righteousness וּצְדָקָ֖ה (ū·ṣə·ḏā·qāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively like an ever-flowing אֵיתָֽן׃ (’ê·ṯān) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 386: Perennial, ever-flowing, permanence stream. כְּנַ֥חַל (kə·na·ḥal) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft Links Amos 5:24 NIVAmos 5:24 NLT Amos 5:24 ESV Amos 5:24 NASB Amos 5:24 KJV Amos 5:24 BibleApps.com Amos 5:24 Biblia Paralela Amos 5:24 Chinese Bible Amos 5:24 French Bible Amos 5:24 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 5:24 But let justice roll on like rivers (Amo. 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