Amos 5:21-24

Let Justice Roll Down

²¹ _o "I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
²² _p 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.
²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to _q the melody of your harps I will not listen.
²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 1:14
   Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
   Jeremiah 6:20
   What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 51:16 - 17
   For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
   Isaiah 1:11
   What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
   
3. Cross References
   Amos 6:5
   Who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music.
   Amos 8:3
   The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord God. "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!
   Isaiah 5:12
   They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.