Amos 5:21-27

Tree of Life Version

²¹ “I hate, I despise your festivals!
I take no delight in your sacred assemblies.
²² Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
nor will I look
    at peace offerings of your fattened animals.
²³ Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
²⁴ But let justice roll like water
and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.
²⁵ Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to Me in the wilderness
for forty years, O house of Israel?
²⁶ But you lifted up your images
—Siccuth your ‘king’, and Chiun,^[a] your star gods—
which you made for yourselves,^[b]
27 So I will send you into exile,
beyond Damascus.”
Adonai has spoken,
Elohei-Tzva’ot is His Name.