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


In Context

21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

22 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

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

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

25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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