Rejected worship, exile announced
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat animals.
Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
Yes, you have borne the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
