Amos 5:24 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ 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 judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 48:18

O 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 judgment 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 judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 6:6

For I desired 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 judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Micah 6:8

He hath showed 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?