21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
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Verse 21. Festivities. Some were still observed. Calmet. 4:4.
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OLD TESTAMENT
All chapters Amos 5:21–24
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22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
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Verse 22. Vows. Hebrew “peace-offerings of your mercies;” a sort of oxen. 2 Kennicott. 6:13 and 3 Kennicott. 1:9. Septuagint “the salvation of your appearance,” or what you offer for your welfare.
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23
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Verse 23. Harp. Praise ill becomes the sinner. Sirach 15:9. Psalms 49:17.
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24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Verse 24. Mighty. Hebrew “Ethan.” Let your virtue appear, or the greatest miseries will shortly overwhelm you. Calmet.
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