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Amos 5:23

IntegrityPraise and worship

21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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BSB
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
KJV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
WEB
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
ASV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
DARBY
Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;
BLB
Turn aside from Me the noise of your songs, and the music of your harps I will not hear.
ÅB
La meg slippe for dine larmende sanger! Jeg vil ikke høre på ditt harpespill.
OTB
Fjern fra meg lyden av deres sanger;
jeg vil ikke lytte til melodien av deres harper.
B1930
La mig slippe for dine larmende sanger! Jeg vil ikke høre på ditt harpespill.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Amos 6:5

    You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

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  • Amos 8:10

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

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  • Amos 8:3

    “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

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