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"I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your festive assemblies.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

"Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fattened oxen.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

"Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

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

"But let justice roll out like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel?

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

"You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

"Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of armies.

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord , whose name is The God of hosts.