Amos 5:22

22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.

Amos 5:22 in Other Translations

KJV
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.
ESV
22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
NLT
22 I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.
MSG
22 I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.
CSB
22 Even if you offer Me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept [them]; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

Amos 5:22 In-Context

20 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Cross References 5

  • 1. Leviticus 26:31
  • 2. S Jeremiah 7:21
  • 3. S Psalms 40:6
  • 4. Jeremiah 14:12; S Amos 4:4; Micah 6:6-7
  • 5. Isaiah 1:11-16; S Isaiah 66:3
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