Let Justice Roll Down

Amos 5

¹⁸ Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light;
¹⁹ as if someone fled from a lion,
and was met by a bear;
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall,
and was bitten by a snake.
²⁰ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?

²¹ I hate, I despise your festivals,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
²² Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals
I will not look upon.
²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs;
I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

²⁵ Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ²⁶ You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, ₁ which you made for yourselves; ²⁷ therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.