Amos 5:23

Remove thou from around me the noise of thy songs: and the playing of thy psalteries I will not hear.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

In Context

22For though ye should offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them in favor: and the peace-offerings of your fatted cattle will I not look at.

24But let justice roll along like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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Cross References

Amos 6:5That chant to the sound of the psaltery, and like David's do they imagine their instrument of music to be;

Amos 8:10And I will change your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will cause [the land] to mourn as one doth for an only son, and its end to be as a day of bitter [complaint].

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →

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