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24 But let (A)justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 [a](B)Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 26 (C)You also carried along [b]Sikkuth your king and [c]Kiyyun, your images, [d]the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

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  1. Amos 5:25 Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering
  2. Amos 5:26 Or Sakkuth (Saturn), shrine of your Moloch
  3. Amos 5:26 Or Kaiwan (Saturn), stands of
  4. Amos 5:26 Or your star gods

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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  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