Amos 5:22 (DBY)

Passage

For 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.

Nearby Context

Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell [a sweet odour] in your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:22 For 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.

Amos 5:23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;

Amos 5:24 but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "offer", "burnt-offerings", "oblations", "accept", "neither", "regard", "peace-offerings", and "fatted". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "offer" and "burnt-offerings", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 21's "I hate I despise your feasts and..." into verse 23's "Take away from me the noise of...", so "offer" and "burnt-offerings" 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 "offer" and "burnt-offerings" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.