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Amos 5:24

But let justice flow like a river, and let goodness flow like a stream that never becomes dry.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hypocrisy;   Offerings;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Justice;   Prophecy, prophet;   Righteousness;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Ethics;   Hypocrisy;   Legalism;   Motives;   Righteousness;   Worship;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acceptance;   Amos;   Forgiveness;   Israel, History of;   Justice;   Pilgrimage;   Praise;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Repentance;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Law;   River;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anger;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Stream;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Calf, Golden;   High Place;   Idolatry;   Pekahiah;   Salvation;   Sanctification;   Waters;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amos;   Atonement;   Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;   Duty;   Judaism;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But let justice flow like water,and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
Hebrew Names Version
But let justice roll on like rivers, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
King James Version
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
English Standard Version
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
New American Standard Bible
"But let justice roll out like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
New Century Version
But let justice flow like a river, and let goodness flow like a never-ending stream.
Amplified Bible
"But let justice run down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly].
Geneva Bible (1587)
And let iudgement runne downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie riuer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Legacy Standard Bible
But let justice roll down like watersAnd righteousness like an ever‑flowing stream.
Berean Standard Bible
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Contemporary English Version
But let justice and fairness flow like a river that never runs dry.
Complete Jewish Bible
Instead, let justice well up like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Darby Translation
but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.
George Lamsa Translation
But let justice run down like waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Good News Translation
Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.
Lexham English Bible
But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Literal Translation
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
American Standard Version
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Bible in Basic English
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
King James Version (1611)
But let iudgement run downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie streame.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And let iudgement run downe as water, and righteousnesse as a mightie riuer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
English Revised Version
But let judgment roll 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And doom schal be schewid as watir, and riytfulnesse as a strong streem.
Update Bible Version
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Webster's Bible Translation
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
New English Translation
Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
New King James Version
But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
New Living Translation
Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.
New Life Bible
But let what is fair roll down like waters. Let what is right and good flow forever like a river.
New Revised Standard
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But let, justice, roll along like water, - and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
Revised Standard Version
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Young's Literal Translation
And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but se that equyte flowe as the water, and rightuousnesse as a mightie streame.

Contextual Overview

21 "I hate your festivals; I will not accept them. I don't enjoy your religious meetings. 22 Even if you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. I will not even look at the fat animals you give as fellowship offerings. 23 Take your noisy songs away from here. I will not listen to the music from your harps. 24 But let justice flow like a river, and let goodness flow like a stream that never becomes dry. 25 Israel, you offered me sacrifices and offerings in the desert for 40 years. 26 But you also carried statues of Sakkuth, your king, and Kaiwan. There was also that star god that you made for yourselves. 27 So I will send you as captives, far beyond Damascus." This is what the Lord says. His name is God All-Powerful.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let: Amos 5:7, Amos 5:14, Amos 5:15, Job 29:12-17, Proverbs 21:3, Hosea 6:6, Micah 6:8, Mark 12:32-34

run: Heb. roll

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 8:15 - David executed Isaiah 48:18 - then had Ezekiel 18:9 - he shall Hosea 12:6 - keep Zechariah 1:4 - Turn Zechariah 7:9 - saying Zechariah 8:16 - execute the judgment of truth and peace Acts 24:25 - righteousness

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
So Adam lived a total of 930 years; then he died.
Genesis 5:6
After Seth was 105 years old, he had a son named Enosh.
Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God for 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 37:30
Reuben went to the brothers and said, "The boy is not in the well! What will I do?"
Genesis 42:36
Jacob said to them, "Do you want me to lose all of my children? Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin away too!"
2 Kings 2:1
It was near the time for the Lord to take Elijah by a whirlwind up into heaven. Elijah and Elisha started to leave Gilgal.
Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the Lord says: "A sound is heard in Ramah— bitter crying and great sadness. Rachel cries for her children, and she refuses to be comforted, because her children are gone."
Matthew 2:18
"A sound was heard in Ramah— bitter crying and great sadness. Rachel cries for her children, and she cannot be comforted, because her children are gone."
Luke 23:43
Then Jesus said to him, "I promise you, today you will be with me in paradise."
1 John 1:7
We should live in the light, where God is. If we live in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood sacrifice of Jesus, God's Son, washes away every sin and makes us clean.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But let judgments run down as waters,.... Or "roll" o; in abundance, with great rapidity, bearing down all before them, which nothing can resist; signifying the plenty of justice done in the land, the full and free exercise of it, without any stoppage or intermission:

and righteousness as a mighty stream; the same thing expressed in different words; though some think that not the execution of judgment and justice by men is here exhorted to, but the vindictive justice of God is threatened; which like a mighty torrent of water should come down, overwhelm, bear away, and destroy all before it, even all the transgressors in Israel.

o ויגל "volvatur", Munster, Mercerus, Liveleus, Drusius; "volvat se", Montanus, Vatablus; "revolvet se", Piscator; "provolvatur", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But - (And) let judgment run down (Literally, “roll” English margin) “like water.” The duties of either table include both; since there is no true love for man without the love of God, nor any real love or duty to God without the love of man. People will exchange their sins for other sins. They will not break them off unless they be converted to God. But the first outward step in conversion, is to break off sin. He bids them then “let judgment,” which had hitherto ever been perverted in its course, “roll on like” a mighty tide of “waters,” sweeping before it all hindrances, obstructed by no power, turned aside by no bribery, but pouring on in one perpetual flow, reaching all, refreshing all, and “righteousness like a mighty (or ceaseless) stream.” The word “ethan” may signify “strong or perennial.” Whence the seventh month, just before the early rain, was called “the month Ethanim 1 Kings 8:2, that is, the month of the “perennial streams,” when they alone flowed. In the meaning “perennial,” it would stand tacitly contrasted with “streams which fail or lie.” True righteousness is not fitful, like an intermitting stream, vehement at one time, then disappearing, but continuous, unfailing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 5:24. Let judgment run down — Let the execution of justice be everywhere like the showers that fall upon the land to render it fertile; and let righteousness in heart and life be like a mighty river, or the Jordan, that shall wind its course through the whole nation, and carry every abomination into the Dead Sea. Let justice and righteousness prevail everywhere, and sweep their contraries out of the land.


 
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