21 I hate, I despise, your feasts!(A)
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.(B)
22 Even if you offer me
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,(C)
I will not accept them;(D)
I will have no regard
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.(E)
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(F)
24 But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.(G)

25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?(H) 26 But you have taken up[a] Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,[b] images you have made for yourselves.(I) 27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”(J) The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.(K) He has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:26 Or you will lift up
  2. 5:26 LXX reads taken up the tent of Molech and the star of your god Rephan; Ac 7:43

21 (A)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 (B)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
    I will not look upon them.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to (C)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
24 But let justice roll down like waters,
    and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 (D)“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 (E)You (F)shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, 27 (G)and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is (H)the God of hosts.

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