Verse of the Day

　　

Amos 5:24

Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

The Message

Do you know what I want? I want justice - oceans of it. I want fairness - rivers of it. That's what I want. That's all I want.

New King James Version

Let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

New Living Translation

Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, a river of righteous living that will never run dry.

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Amos 5:18-27

(Read Amos 5:18-27)

　　Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.

　　

Amos 5:24 In-Context

22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.

　　23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

　　24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

　　25 "Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

　　26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your godOr "lifted up Sakkuth your king" / "and Kaiwan your idols," / "your star-gods" ; Septuagint "lifted up the shrine of Molek" / "and the star of your god Rephan," / "their idols" - which you made for yourselves.