23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
23 I've had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time you sang to me?
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 5:23
Commentary on Amos 5:18-27
(Read Amos 5:18-27)
Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.