Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened animals.
But let justice roll like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.
chanting to the sound of harp like David, inventing their own instruments of song,
I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”
The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.” It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai. “So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!