Amos 5:21-27

New Century Version

²¹ The Lord says, “I hate and reject your feasts;
    I cannot stand your religious meetings.
²² If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I won’t accept them.
You bring your best fellowship offerings of fattened cattle,
    but I will ignore them.
²³ Take the noise of your songs away from me!
    I won’t listen to the music of your harps.
²⁴ But let justice flow like a river,
    and let goodness flow like a never-ending stream.

²⁵ “People of Israel, you did not bring me sacrifices and offerings
    while you traveled in the desert for forty years.
²⁶ You have carried with you
    your king, the god Sakkuth,
    and Kaiwan your idol,
    and the star gods you have made.
²⁷ So I will send you away as captives beyond Damascus,”
    says the Lord, whose name is the God All-Powerful.