Amos 5:23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Majority Standard Bible
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
24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Cross References
Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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 →