24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.


In Context

21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

22 Though you 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 you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.

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

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

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

Amos 5:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:24But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:24But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:24but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:24But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:24And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.