Amos 5:21-22

Let Justice Roll Down

21 o "I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 p Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:14
    Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
    Jeremiah 6:20
    What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 51:16 - 17
    For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
    Isaiah 1:11
    What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
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