New American Standard Bible 1995

Amos 5:18-27

18Alas, you who are longing for the 1day of the Lord, For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you? It will be 2darkness and not light;19As when a man 3flees from a lion And a bear meets him, 4Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites him.20Will not the day of the Lord be 5darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?

21“I hate, I 6reject your festivals, Nor do I 7 8delight in your solemn assemblies.22Even though you 9offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the 10peace offerings of your fatlings.23Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.24But let 11justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25“12 13Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 26 14You also carried along 15Sikkuth your king and 16Kiyyun, your images, 17the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. 27Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

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Notes

1. Amos 5:18 Is 5:19; Jer 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31 ↩
2. Amos 5:18 Is 5:30; Joel 2:2 ↩
3. Amos 5:19 Job 20:24; Is 24:17, 18; Jer 15:2, 3; 48:44 ↩
4. Amos 5:19 Or Then ↩
5. Amos 5:20 Is 13:10; Zeph 1:15 ↩
6. Amos 5:21 Is 1:11-16; 66:3; Amos 4:4, 5; 8:10 ↩
7. Amos 5:21 Lit like to smell ↩
8. Amos 5:21 Lev 26:31; Jer 14:12; Hos 5:6 ↩
9. Amos 5:22 Is 66:3; Mic 6:6, 7 ↩
10. Amos 5:22 Lev 7:11-15; Amos 4:5 ↩
11. Amos 5:24 Jer 22:3; Ezek 45:9; Mic 6:8 ↩
12. Amos 5:25 Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering ↩
13. Amos 5:25 Deut 32:17; Josh 24:14; Neh 9:18-21; Acts 7:42, 43 ↩
14. Amos 5:26 Acts 7:43 ↩
15. Amos 5:26 Or Sakkuth (Saturn) or shrine of your Moloch ↩
16. Amos 5:26 Or Kaiwan (Saturn) or stands of ↩
17. Amos 5:26 Or your star gods ↩

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