Amos 5:23 (DRB)

Passage

Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Nearby Context

Amos 5:21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

Amos 5:22 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

Amos 5:23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Amos 5:24 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

Amos 5:25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "take", "away", "tumult", "songs", "hear", "canticles", and "harp". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "take" and "away", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 22's "And if you offer me holocausts and..." into verse 24's "But judgment shall be revealed as water...", so "take" and "away" belong inside that flow. In Amos context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "take" and "away" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.