24 But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.(A)

25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?(B) 26 But you have taken up[a] Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,[b] images you have made for yourselves.(C)

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  1. 5:26 Or you will lift up
  2. 5:26 LXX reads taken up the tent of Molech and the star of your god Rephan; Ac 7:43

24 But let justice(A) roll on like a river,
    righteousness(B) like a never-failing stream!(C)

25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(D) and offerings
    forty years(E) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
    the pedestal of your idols,(F)
    the star of your god[a]
    which you made for yourselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols