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

25 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(D) 26 You shall take up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, your images,[a] which you made for yourselves; 27 therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.(E)

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  1. 5.26 Heb your images, your star god

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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  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