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;

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  • Amos 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.

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  • Amos 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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