Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,’ and they had committed terrible blasphemies,
Amos 5:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Did you bring to Me sacrifices and cereal offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? American Standard Version (1901) Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Common English Bible Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel? Catholic Public Domain Version Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? |
Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,’ and they had committed terrible blasphemies,
You provided for them in the wilderness for forty years, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.
For they did not practise my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.
‘ “But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized, and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them, exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.
They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.
‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
‘Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and worship the Lord.