Amos 5:24 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

What I do want to see is justice! I want to see that you always do what is right. Those good things should never stop, like a river that always runs with water.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

But let justice flow like a river, and let goodness flow like a stream that never becomes dry.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.

English God's Word - GW 1995

But let justice flow like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever‑flowing stream.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I want you to treat others fairly. So let fair treatment roll on just as a river does! Always do what is right. Let right living flow along like a stream that never runs dry!

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

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

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

However, I delight in a land where justice flows like a river and where true righteousness rolls like a steady flowing stream.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

“I want to see a mighty flood of justice—a torrent of doing good.

English Tyndale 1537

but see that equity flow as the water, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Amos 5:24 — Compare Translations