Amos 5 · Verse 22

Amos 5:22

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.
Amos 5:22, King James Version

Amos 5:22 in other translations

BSBEven though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
WEBYes, 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.
ASVYea, 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.
YLTFor though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.
DARBYFor if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.
BBEEven 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.
WebsterThough 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.

What does Amos 5:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. meat offerings--flour, &c. Unbloody offerings. peace offerings--offerings for obtaining from God peace and prosperity. Hebrew, "thank offerings."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 5:18-27

Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not…

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Amos 5:22 in the original Hebrew

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כִּ֣יkithatH3588
אִם\־'im-exceptH518
תַּעֲלוּ\־ta.'a.lu-you will offer upH5927
לִ֥יlito me
עֹל֛וֹתo.Lotburnt offeringsH5930
וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖םu.min.cho.tei.Khemand grain offerings yourH4503
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
אֶרְצֶ֑ה'er.TzehI will accept [them]H7521
וְשֶׁ֥לֶםve.She.lemand [the] peace offering ofH8002
מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖םme.ri.'ei.Khemfatlings yourH4806
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
אַבִּֽיט\׃'a.BitI will pay attention toH5027

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Amos 5:22

  • Micah 6:6-7

    Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

  • Amos 4:4-5

    Come to Beth–el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

  • Isaiah 66:3

    He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

  • Leviticus 7:12-15

    If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

  • Psalms 50:23

    Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

  • Psalms 116:17

    I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

  • Psalms 50:8-14

    I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. …

  • Psalms 107:21-22

    Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
offer.
Ps 50:8-13; Isa 66:3; Mic 6:6,7
peace offerings. or, thank offerings.
4:4,5; Le 7:12-15; Ps 50:14,23; 107:21,22; 116:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Amos 5:21

    I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

  • Amos 5:22

    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.

  • Amos 5:23

    Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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Amos 5:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y si me ofreciereis holocaustos y vuestros presentes, no los recibiré; ni miraré á los pacíficos de vuestros engordados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
si vous m’offrez des holocaustes et vos offrandes de gâteau, je ne les agréerai pas, et je ne regarderai pas le sacrifice de prospérités de vos bêtes grasses.
German
Elberfelder 1871
denn wenn ihr mir Brandopfer und eure Speisopfer opfert, habe ich kein Wohlgefallen daran; und das Friedensopfer von eurem Mastvieh mag ich nicht ansehen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam; et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.