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


In Context

21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.

22 For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.

23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;

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

25 Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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