Parallel Bible results for "amos 5:22-27"

Amos 5:22-27

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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.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
23 Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps.
23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
25 "People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
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
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god — which you made for yourselves.
27 when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is Almighty God.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.
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