Amos 5:25 (DRB)

Passage

Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Nearby Context

Amos 5:23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Amos 5:24 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

Amos 5:25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:26 But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

Amos 5:27 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "offer", "victims", "sacrifices", "desert", "forty", "years", "house", and "israel". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "offer" and "victims", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 24's "But judgment shall be revealed as water..." into verse 26's "But you carried a tabernacle for your...", so "offer" and "victims" 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 "victims" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.