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Amos 5:24

But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium, et justitia quasi torrens fortis.
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ κυλισθήσεται ὡς ὕδωρ κρίμα, καὶ δικαιοσύνη ὡς χειμάρρους ἄβατος.
Hebrew (WLC)
וְיִגַּ֥ל כַּמַּ֖יִם מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה כְּנַ֥חַל אֵיתָֽן

Haydock's commentary

Mighty. Hebrew, "Ethan." Let your virtue appear, or the greatest miseries will shortly overwhelm you. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

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