OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

Amos 5:22

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.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Amos 5:22 in context

Amos 5:19–25

As if a man fled from a lion,

and a bear met him;

or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,

and a snake bit him.

Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?

Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your feasts,

and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

Selected verse

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!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

But let justice roll on like rivers,

and righteousness like a mighty stream.

“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

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