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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.
Psalms 50:23The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
Psalms 116:17I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.
Proverbs 21:27The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.
Amos 4:4Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning 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 →