NET Bible
"You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel."
— Amos 5:25, NET Bible
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”
“Did ye bring 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?”
“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?”
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.
Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.
Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,
and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD. He is called the God of Heaven’s Armies!