Amos 5:19-27

19 It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall - only to be bitten by a snake!
20 The day of the Lord will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.
21 The Lord says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! 1
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 "People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert. 2
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.

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Cross References 2

  • 1. 5.21, 22Isaiah 1.11-14.
  • 2. 5.25-27Acts 7.42, 43.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.