Amos Chapter 5 verse 24 Holy Bible
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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But let justice roll on like rivers, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
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And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.
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Amos 5 : 24 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - But let judgment run down as waters; let judgment roll on; Septuagint, καὶ κυλισθήσεται ὡς ὕδωρ κρίμα, "and judgment shall roll along as water." Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium (Vulgate). This verse has been explained in different ways. Hitzig, Keil, with many ancient commentators, find in it a threat of chastisement, "the flooding of the land with judgment and the punitive righteousness of God." Pusey, Professor Gandell, and others consider it to be a call to amendment. "He bids them let judgment, which had hitherto been perverted in its course, roll on like a mighty tide of waters, sweeping before it all hindrances," filling the whole land with righteousness. Schegg makes it to be a promise of the coming of the day of the Lord, that is, the revelation of Messiah. But such a promise in this position is very forced and unnatural. The second interpretation seems most suitable. In the midst of the denunciation of men's formal worship, the prophet announces their duty in the present crisis, attention to which could alone win God's favour. Judgment and righteousness, long neglected and forgotten, should permeate the land like refreshing streams of water - a simile of special signification to an inhabitant of an Eastern country, where the neighbourhood of a perennial stream was as delightful as it was unusual. Mighty (ethan); ἄβατος, "impassable" (Septuagint); fortis (Vulgate). The word may mean "strong," or "perennial." "Whence the seventh month, just before the early rain, was called the month Ethanim, i.e. the month of the perennial streams, when they alone flowed" (Pusey).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Mighty stream.--Or rather perennial stream.
