Amos 5:23

A Conservative Version

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Cross References

Amos 6:5

who sing idle songs to the sound of the viol, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David,

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a b

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

Amos 5:22

Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.