Holy Scripture
Amos 5:23
A church father on this verse
“What shall I say to those who worship Astarate or Chemosh, the abomination of the Sidions, or the likeness of a star, a god a little above them to these idolaters, but yet a creature and a piece of workmanship, when I myself either do not worship two of those into whose united name I am baptized, or else worship my fe…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
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21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat offerings in your general assemblies.
22Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.
— Amos 5:23 —
24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?