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Amos 5:22–23

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5:22Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings,59 I will not be satisfied;

I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.60

5:23Take away from me your61 noisy songs;

I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.62

Read in Logos
Amos 5:23–24: Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Footnotes

  1. 59 Heb “burnt offerings and your grain offerings.”
  2. 60 Heb “Peace offering[s], your fattened calves, I will not look at.”
  3. 61 In this verse the second person suffixes are singular and not plural like they are in vv. 21–22 and vv. 25–27. Some have suggested that perhaps a specific individual or group within the nation is in view.
  4. 62 The Hebrew word probably refers to “harps” (, , ) or “lutes” ().

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,

I will not look upon them.

Take away from me the noise of your songs;

to the melody of your harps I will not listen.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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.

Away with the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Even if you offer me

your burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

I will have no regard

for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings.

I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.

Away with your noisy hymns of praise!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals. Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps!

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;

For I will not hear the melody of thy viols.