Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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… of your fatlings take away from me the noise of your songs I will not even listen to the sound of the harps let justice roll down don't you like the way that reads let it roll down like water and then in good Hebrew poetic fashion the statement follows that intensifies it Let righteousness, like an ever-flowing stream, roll down. It's been a long time coming, says the Lord, but remember I am just, as one man wrote, the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small. Another in our day put it this way, all God's accounts are not settled at the end of every month. Eugene Peterson in The Message renders this passage in words that probably will seem a little more current to you and me. I can't stand your religious meetings. I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I'm sick of your fundraising schemes, your public relations and image making. …
… It says, verse 23, take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps, but let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. I know I talk fast, but dang, I'll go back to verse 21. I hate, I despise your festivals. I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. And the offerings of your well-being of fatted animals, I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Can I give y'all room to shout everything before verse 24 was overruled by what was portrayed by way of possibility. Yeah, you've messed up. Yeah, this nation ain't what it should be. But I still have a dream. I still believe in your possibility. I still believe because there's a pivot. …
… warm strength and power it's essentially one by way of two and in the text it says but let justice roll on like a river righteousness like a never failing stream and the question is some people may have raised is there a difference as we do know there are going back to translations pastor there have been bibles that have they have snatched that word justice out and attempted to replace it with righteousness and what's interesting is um is that it is a hypostatic union it there is justice you cannot mention righteousness utilize the term righteousness and not look at the idea of justice It is justice. Justice is always for we are righteously just because of who God is. And God always handles the scales of justice. In fact, we have a God who is just. We don't serve a God who strips or pulls out justice of the picture. And so I thought that was interesting there. And so, Pastor, one question I would ask is what would you have to say or what would you say considering those warped translations that try to remove the terminology of justice? …
… I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings. Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not even listen to the sound of the harps. Let justice roll down. Don't you like the way that reads? Let it roll down like water. And then in good Hebrew poetic fashion, the statement follows that intensifies it. Let righteousness like an ever-flowing stream roll down. It's been a long time coming, says the Lord. but remember I am just, as one man wrote, the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small. Another in our day put it this way, all God's accounts are not settled at the end of every month. Eugene Peterson in the message renders this passage in words that probably will seem a little more current to you and me. I can't stand your religious meetings. I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I'm sick of your fundraising schemes. …
… okay I know I talk fast but dang uh let me let me just do it again so y'all can get this it's right there in the text uh it's just really good it says uh verse 23 take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps, but let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. I know I talk fast, but dang, I'll go back to verse 21. I hate, I despise your festivals. I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. And the offerings of your well-being of fatted animals, I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs I will not listen to the melody of your hearts but let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Can I give y'all room to shout everything before verse 24 was overruled by what was portrayed by way of possibility. Yeah you've messed up. …
… I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the music of your harps. but let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream. You see the importance of social justice to God? Him telling His people, you can sing all you want, but if you're not concerned about the poor, away with the noise of your songs. I hate your feasts. I want nothing to do with them. If you give me your outward worship, But there's no concern among you for the poor. As a result, we come to the New Testament picture of the church, and we don't see an emphasis on their worship practices. We see an emphasis on their care for the needs around them. It was an uncommon social concern. They valued people over possessions. They wanted there to be no poverty among them. Not only did they value people over possessions, though, but they gave their resources without thought of any return. …
… and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps, but let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Singer John Foreman, in his song, Instead of a Show, paraphrases these words by singing, I hate all your show and pretense, the hypocrisy of your praise, the hypocrisy of your festivals. I hate all your show. Away with your noisy worship. Away with your noisy hymns. I stomp on my ears when you're singing them. I hate all your show. Instead, let there be a flood of justice, an endless procision of righteous living. Instead, let there be a flood of justice instead of a show. Micah is talking to a people who are dealing with very similar injustices and mistreatment of worship in that time later in verse 12 Micah says this about the people they're wealthy are full of violence and their inhabitants speak lies God in this passage is bringing up quite a case against the Israelites of worshiping without any righteousness and God ponders in poetic fashion what has gone wrong? So God reminds them of who God is. God reminds them that God is a God who saves, a God who delivers them out of bondage. Don't you remember Moses, God says, a God who hears and sees and acts on behalf of the oppressed. There is this case, and the people start to panic. …