Amos 5:21-25

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“I hate, I ^(A)reject your festivals,
Nor do I ^(a)^(B)delight in your solemn assemblies.

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“Even though you ^(C)offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the ^(D)peace offerings of your fatlings.

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“Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

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“But let ^(E)justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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25} “^(b)^(F)Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Footnotes:

a. Amos 5:21: ['Lit ', like to smell]

b. Amos 5:25: ['Or ', You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering]

Cross references:

A. Amos 5:21: Isaiah 1:11-16; Isaiah 66:3; Amos 4:4; Amos 4:5; Amos 8:10

B. Amos 5:21: Leviticus 26:31; Jeremiah 14:12; Hosea 5:6

C. Amos 5:22: Isaiah 66:3; Micah 6:6; Micah 6:7

D. Amos 5:22: Leviticus 7:11-15; Amos 4:5

E. Amos 5:24: Jeremiah 22:3; Ezekiel 45:9; Micah 6:8

F. Amos 5:25: Deuteronomy 32:17; Joshua 24:14; Nehemiah 9:18-21; Acts 7:42; Acts 7:43