Bible in Basic English
"Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?"
— Amos 5:25, Bible in Basic English
“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?”
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.
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.