There’s no replacement for obedience, for righteousness, for justice for true worship of the LORD. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream (5:24) That’s all. ![]() Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. Amos 5:24, CSB: But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream. Amos 5:24, NLT: Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Amos 5:24, NASB: But let justice roll out like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. ![]() And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. The graph below shows the locations of each appearance. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The word water appears 709 times throughout the books of the Bible. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. 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. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. 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. Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 5:24 Commentary on Amos 5:18-27 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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