Amos 5:22
For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
23Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said: “Does the Lord want holocausts and victims, and not instead that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifice. And to heed is greater than to offer the fat of rams.
Proverbs 21:27The sacrifices of the impious are abominable, because they are offered out of wickedness.
Amos 4:4Come to Bethel and behave impiously, to Gilgal and increase betrayals. And bring daybreak to your victims, your tithes in three days.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →