22. Even though you bring me your burnt offerings and grain offeringsI will not accept them;Your stall-fed communion offerings,I will not look upon them.
23. Take away from meyour noisy songs;The melodies of your harps,I will not listen to them.
24. Rather let justice surge like waters,and righteousness like an unfailing stream.
25. Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offeringsfor forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
26. Yet you will carry away Sukuth, your king,and Kaiwan, your star-image,your gods that you have made for yourselves,
27. As I exile you beyond Damascus,says the Lord,whose name is the God of hosts.