Amos 5:21-27

Common English Bible

²¹ I hate, I reject your festivals;
    I don’t enjoy your joyous assemblies.
²² If you bring me your entirely burned offerings and gifts of food—
        I won’t be pleased;
    I won’t even look at your offerings of well-fed animals.
²³ Take away the noise of your songs;
        I won’t listen to the melody of your harps.
²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters,
        and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
²⁵ Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
        during the forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?
²⁶ You will take up Sakkuth your king,
        and Kaiwan your star-god,
            your images, which you made for yourselves.
²⁷ Therefore, I will take you away
        beyond Damascus, says the Lord,
            whose name is the God of heavenly forces.