Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,
Amos 5:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? More versionsKing 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 when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,
Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.
because they had not executed my ordinances but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their ancestors’ idols.
But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; not one of them cast away the detestable things on which their eyes feasted, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
“Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
“Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve the Lord.