Amos 4:5 (DBY)

Passage

and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Nearby Context

Amos 4:3 and ye shall go out by the breaches, every one straight before her, and ye shall be cast out to Harmon, saith Jehovah.

Amos 4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes every three days,

Amos 4:5 and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

Amos 4:7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece [of land] was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "burn", "thank-offering", "leaven", "proclaim", "publish", "voluntary", "offerings", and "pleaseth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "burn" and "thank-offering", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "Come to Bethel and transgress at Gilgal..." into verse 6's "And I also have given you cleanness...", so "burn" and "thank-offering" belong inside that flow. In Amos context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "burn" and "thank-offering" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.