Catholic Public Domain Version
"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. "
— Amos 5:22, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. ”
“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.”
“Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.”
“And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.”
“Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.”
“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.”
It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.
Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
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.
Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?