Amos 5:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

But let judgement roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Amos 5:24 Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgement Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye judgement and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus saith the Lord GOD Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgement and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:23

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgement to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?