Amos 5:21-27 ▼

21 |I hate—I despise—your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

22 And 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.

24 |But let justice roll on like many 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 — and Saturn, your star god idols 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.