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 40 years in the wilderness?(H) 26 But you have taken up[a] Sakkuth[b][c] your king[d] and Kaiwan[e] your star god, images you have made for yourselves.(I) 27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”(J) Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.(K) He has spoken.

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Notas al pie

  1. Amos 5:26 Or you will lift up
  2. Amos 5:26 LXX, Sym, Syr, Vg read the tent; Ac 7:43
  3. Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian war god also called Adar or Ninurta
  4. Amos 5:26 LXX reads up the tent of Molech and Rephan; Ac 7:43
  5. Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian god identified with Saturn

Let Justice Roll On

21 “I hate—I despise—your festival days,
    and your solemn convocations stink.[a]
22 And[b] if you send up burnt offerings to me
    as well as your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
    nor will I consider your peace offerings of fattened cattle.
23 Spare me your noisy singing—
    I will not listen to your musical instruments.[c]

24 “But let justice roll on like many[d] waters,
    and righteousness like an ever-flowing river.

25 “Was it to me that you brought offerings and gifts
    in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel?
26 And you carried the tent of your king[e]
    and Saturn,[f] your star god idols[g] that you crafted for yourselves.
27 So I will cause you to be taken captive beyond Damascus,”
    says the Lord,
        whose name is God of the Heavenly Armies.

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Notas al pie

  1. Amos 5:21 Lit. and I smell no pleasant scent in your solemn assemblies
  2. Amos 5:22 Lit. Because
  3. Amos 5:23 I.e. a stringed instrument such as a harp or lyre
  4. Amos 5:24 The Heb. lacks many
  5. Amos 5:26 LXX reads of Moloch; MT reads carried Sikkuth your king
  6. Amos 5:26 Lit. and Kiyyun
  7. Amos 5:26 So MT; LXX reads and the star of your God Raiphan, the images