Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
New American Standard Bible
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
King James Version
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Holman Bible
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
International Standard Version
"But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river.
A Conservative Version
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
American Standard Version
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amplified
“But let justice run down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly].
Darby Translation
but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.
Julia Smith Translation
Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.
King James 2000
But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Modern King James verseion
But let judgment roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but see that equity flow as the water, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
NET Bible
Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
New Heart English Bible
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
The Emphasized Bible
But let, justice, roll along like water, - and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing.
Webster
But let judgment run 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Day Of Yahweh
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments. 24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. 25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
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Cross References
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Job 29:12-17
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Amos 5:14-15
Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.
Mark 12:32-34
And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he: