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Amos 5:22

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

For though you offer Me burnt offerings and your food offerings, I will not be pleased; and not will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

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I will sacrifice to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call on the name of Jehovah.

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; You have opened ears to Me. You have not asked burnt offering and sin offering.

Whoever offers thanks glorifies Me; and he who sets a way, I will show the salvation of God to him.

The sacrifice of the wicked one is a disgusting thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright one is His delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked ones is a disgusting thing; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent!

What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.

He who slaughters an ox is as if he struck a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog’s neck; he who offers a present is as if it were swine’s blood; he making mention of incense is as if he blessed iniquity. Yea, they have chosen their way, and their soul delights in their detestable idols.

So says Jehovah to this people: So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; even Jehovah will not be pleased with them. He will now recall their iniquity and call their sins to account.

Why is this to Me; frankincense comes from Sheba, and the good cane from a land afar off? Your burnt offerings are not for acceptance, and your sacrifices are not sweet to Me.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

And this is the law of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which shall be brought near to Jehovah:

Take away from Me the noise of your songs; and I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

And now please entreat the face of God, that He favor us. This has been by your hands; will He lift up your faces? says Jehovah of Hosts.

And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold! Obeying is better than sacrifice; to give attention is better than the fat of rams.




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