Amos 5:21-27

Good News Translation

^21 (A)The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! ²² When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings. ²³ Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps. ²⁴ Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.

^25 (B)“People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert. ²⁶ But now, because you have worshiped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images ²⁷ when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is Almighty God.