Amos 5:24
Good News Translation
Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.

New Revised Standard Version
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Contemporary English Version
But let justice and fairness flow like a river that never runs dry.

New American Bible
Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

let.

Amos 5:7,14,15 You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land, . . .

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Proverbs 21:3 To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Mark 12:32-34 And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. . . .

run.

Context
The Day of the LORD
23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp. 24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?…
Cross References
Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9
Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.

Amos 5:23
Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Micah 6:8
I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Amos 5:23
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