Amos 5:24
But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
In Context
23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
Cross References
Proverbs 21:3To do justly and to speak truth, 1 Are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices. 1
Hosea 6:6For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.
Amos 5:14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →