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21 I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities. 22 Even though you bring me your burnt offerings and grain offerings I will not accept them; Your stall-fed communion offerings, I will not look upon them. 23 Take away from me your noisy songs; The melodies of your harps, I will not listen to them. 24 Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream. 25 Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? 26 Yet you will carry away Sukuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star-image, your gods that you have made for yourselves, 27 As I exile you beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts. Amos 5:21-27, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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