Bible verse
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from Amos 5.
20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
KJV
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
ASV
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
ERV
But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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