Contrasting Amos 5:21-25

[Sojourner]

"Amos 5:21-25

"I can't stand your religious meetings.

I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions.

I want nothing to do with your religion projects,

your pretentious slogans and goals.

I'm sick of your fund–raising schemes,

your public relations and image making.

I've had all I can take of your noisy ego–music.

When was the last time you sang to me?

Do you know what I want?

I want justice––oceans of it.

I want fairness––rivers of it.

That's what I want. That's all I want.

" Didn't you, dear family of Israel, worship me faithfully for forty years in the wilderness, bringing the sacrifices and offerings I commanded"?

NKJV

21 “I hate, I despise your feast days,

And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,

I will not accept them,

Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,

For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

24 But let justice run down like water,

And righteousness like a mighty stream.

25 “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings

In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

[Ron Amnsn]

The paraphrase of the verses in Amos 5 has many thoughts that I agree with, yet I'm not convinced that's what Amos had in mind when he penned the verses.

"I want justice––oceans of it.

I want fairness––rivers of it."