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KJV Lexicon But let judgmentmishpat (mish-pawt') a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective run down galal (gaw-lal') to roll -- commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow. as waters mayim (mah'-yim) water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring). and righteousness tsdaqah (tsed-aw-kaw') rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity) -- justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness). as a mighty 'eythan (ay-thawn') from an unused root (meaning to continue); permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain -- hard, mighty, rough, strength, strong. stream nachal (nakh'-al) a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine) -- brook, flood, river, stream, valley. Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible "But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. King James Bible But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Holman Christian Standard Bible But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream." International Standard Version "But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river. NET Bible Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up. GOD'S WORD® Translation But let justice flow like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. King James 2000 Bible But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Links Amos 5:24Amos 5:24 NIV Amos 5:24 NLT Amos 5:24 ESV Amos 5:24 NASB Amos 5:24 KJV |
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