Bible verse
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Amos 5:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Amos 5.
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
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?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
KJV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
ASV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
ERV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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