Holy Scripture

Amos 5:24

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 24) And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a strong torrent. LXX: And it will roll like water, and justice like an impassable torrent. Just as water, when it flows downhill, uncovers what it previously covered and exposes it to the eyes of all, so will the judgment and justice of God, which…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

Original

24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

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In context

22Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.

23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.

— Amos 5:24 —

25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?

26Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Molech, and the star of your god Rephan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

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