23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.(A)
24 But let justice(B) roll on like a river,
    righteousness(C) like a never-failing stream!(D)

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21-24 “I can’t stand your religious meetings.
    I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
    your pretentious slogans and goals.
I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes,
    your public relations and image making.
I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
    When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want?
    I want justice—oceans of it.
I want fairness—rivers of it.
    That’s what I want. That’s all I want.

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23 
“Take the noise of your songs away from Me [they are an irritation]!
I shall not even listen to the melody of your harps.
24 
“But let justice run down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly].

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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
24 But let justice roll down like waters,
    and righteousness like an everflowing stream.

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23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,
    an endless river of righteous living.

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