Amos 5:21-27

God Rejects Empty Worship

Amos 5:21-27
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"I hate, I utterly loathe your festivals; I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies.
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If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I consider the peace offerings of your stall-fed cattle.
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Spare me the noise of your songs! I don't want to hear the strumming of your lutes!
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Instead, let justice well up like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings in the desert forty years, house of Isra'el?
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No, but now you will bear Sikkut as your king and Kiyun, your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves;
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as I exile you beyond Dammesek," says Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot - that is his name.
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