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Amos 5:23
Amos 5:23 is verse 23 of Amos chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
King James Version
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
World English Bible
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Amos 5:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
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.