God Rejects Empty Worship

Amos 5:21-27

I have hated--I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.

Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.

And I removed you beyond Damascus, Said Jehovah, God of Hosts is His name.