American Standard Version
"Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? "
— Amos 5:25, American Standard Version
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”
“"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?”
“You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.”
“Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?”
“Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?”
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”
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.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.