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Scott's Reference Library
Amos 5:21 through Amos 5:24 (NIV)
21 “I hate, I despise your religious feasts;
I cannot stand your assemblies.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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.