Amos 5:24

New American Bible - revised edition

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you would attend to my commandments, your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Hosea 6:6

For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me your noisy songs; The melodies of your harps, I will not listen to them.

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Micah 6:8

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.