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But let justiceוְ מִשְׁפָּטroll onיִגַּלlike the waters,כַּמַּיִםand righteousnessוּצְדָקָהlike an ever-flowingאֵיתָןstream.כְּנַחַל
Amos 5:24
Study it in the app“But let justice roll on like the waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
God rejects feasts and songs if justice and right do not flowPraise and worshipGod rejects feasts and songs while justice is missing: let it flow like a streamJustice and mercy
With the Hebrew beneath
Amos 5:24, word by word
- But let justiceמִשְׁפָּטmishpat
justice
What is right and fair.
Where else “mishpat” appears- roll onיִגַּלyigal
roll
To turn something over and over, or wallow.
Where else “yigal” appears- like the watersמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- and righteousnessצְדָקָהtsedaka
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsedaka” appears- like an ever-flowingאֵיתָןetan
ever-flowing
That always flows, like a river.
Where else “etan” appears- streamנַחַלnachal
torrent
A channel that runs with water only in the rainy season.
Where else “nachal” appears
The context
23Take away from me the noise of your songs, and the melody of your harps I will not hear.
24 · This verse (above)
25Did you bring me sacrifices and offering in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?