Amos 5:23
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Read in contextAmos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Read in contextAmos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
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