Amos 5:24
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But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

let.

Amos 5:7,14,15 You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land, . . .

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Proverbs 21:3 To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Mark 12:32-34 And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. . . .

run.

Context
The Day of the LORD
23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp. 24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?…
Cross References
Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9
Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.

Amos 5:23
Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Micah 6:8
I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Lexicon
But let justice
מִשְׁפָּ֑ט (miš·pāṭ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

roll on
וְיִגַּ֥ל (wə·yig·gal)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1556: To roll, roll away

like a river,
כַּמַּ֖יִם (kam·ma·yim)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and righteousness
וּצְדָקָ֖ה (ū·ṣə·ḏā·qāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

like an ever-flowing
אֵיתָֽן׃ (’ê·ṯān)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 386: Perennial, ever-flowing, permanence

stream.
כְּנַ֥חַל (kə·na·ḥal)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft


Additional Translations
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.
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