Amos 5:24
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. A funeral lament over fallen Israel: the maiden Israel has fallen with no one to raise her up. God calls for seeking him rather than Bethel and declares that his day — the day of the Lord — is darkness …
Other Translations
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Cross References
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: …
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God …
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with …
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do …
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of …
And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there …