I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Mercer Dictionary of the Bible - الصفحة 29المحررون: - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 987معاينة محدودة - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John Merlin Powis Smith - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...fat beasts. Take away from me the noise of your songs: For I will not hear the melody of thy harps. But let justice roll down like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5 : 21-24.) Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from my eyes; Cease to... | |
| United States. Congress - 1955 - عدد الصفحات: 88
...kindness, because he believed such was a requirement of the Lord. Like Amos he had heard God saying: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." He was kind to others because he had experienced the kindness of God, and knew as did the writer of... | |
| 1971 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps 1 will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24.) Along with this frenzied cultic activity there was a pervasive optimism current in... | |
| Samuel Torvend - 2014 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...ask from the people who have forgotten the meaning of the meal of liberation celebrated at Passover? "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (7:24). What God reveals or discloses is God's desire for a just distribution or equitable access to... | |
| Jerry L. Sittser - 2009 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...thundered, even hated their religious observance because it was devoid of any commitment to justice. "But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream."16 The antidote to stealing is hard work and faithful stewardship. God commands us to work.... | |
| MacMillan Kiiru - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 160
...means of systematic and appropriate giving from one's harvest or income. But the weightier matter is to "let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24) (Thompson 1960:36). It is evident from the above scriptural references that tithing had... | |
| Roger E. Van Harn - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the...waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24) The trouble was that the worship of a sinful people beclouded the glory of God. Dishonest... | |
| John Hick - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs: to the...waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. (Amos 5:21-4) In the same vein Jesus condemned some of the religious leaders of his day: But woe unto... | |
| William G. Dever - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 361
...offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the...waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24) Now, while defending the common man and the rights of ordinary folk, Amos insists that... | |
| Charles H. Talbert - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the...waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24; cf. Isaiah 1:12-17; Hosea 6:6; 8:1 1-13; for a later time, cf. Aristeas 234) Here the... | |
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