Amos 5:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

But, Heb. And judgment: some interpret this of penal judgment, by God threatened against these hypocrites; but it is better understood of justice to be administered by rulers, whose office it was to determine between party and party. Run down as waters; freely, constantly, speedily, and for common benefit of all, as waters run. Righteousness; equity, relieving justice, the want of which hath been notorious among you. As a mighty stream, which bears down all that opposeth it: be hindered by none from doing every one right; do this, and you may yet be accepted.