Amos 5:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.

More versions

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.

Amos 5:24 Cross References

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Amos 5:7

O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.