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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.

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25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(A) and offerings
    forty years(B) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
    the pedestal of your idols,(C)
    the star of your god[a]
    which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile(D) beyond Damascus,”
    says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols