...despise your feast-days. Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and meat-offerings, I will not accept them. Take away from me the noise of your songs ; I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let justice run down as water, and righteousness as a mighty stream."...

...despise your feastdays. Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and meat-offerings, I will not accept them. Take away from me the noise of your songs ; I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let justice run down as water, and righteousness as a mighty stream."...

...despise your feast-days. Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and meat-offerings, I will not accept them. Take away from me the noise of your songs ; I will not hear the melody of your viols. But let justice run down as water, and righteousness as a mighty stream....

...of your fat beasts. Take away from me the noise of your songs: For I will not hear the melody of thy harps. But let justice roll down like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5 : 21-24.) Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from my eyes; Cease to do evil;...

...your festivals. . . . Take away from me the noise of thy songs, For I will not hear the melody of thy harps. But let justice roll down like waters, And righteousness like an unfailing stream (5:21, 23, 24). And Micah is "very bold" when he says: With what shall I come before...

...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 listen to the melody of your viols. But let judgment run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." That is and...

...kindness, because he believed such was a requirement of the Lord. Like Amos he had heard God saying: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." He was kind to others because he had experienced the kindness of God, and knew as did the writer of...

...look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps 1 will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24.) Along with this frenzied cultic activity there was a pervasive optimism current in Israelite...

...its minimal standard of behavior. From the Bible we learn of the importance of justice as Amos cries, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). Today, the actual content of justice involves the priority of persons, the protection of freedom,...

...its minimal standard of behavior. From the Bible we learn of the importance of justice as Amos cries, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). Today, the actual content of justice involves the priority of persons, the protection of freedom,...