Amos 5:22

5:22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, ¹  I will not be satisfied;

I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves. ² 

Amos 7:1

Symbolic Visions of Judgment

7:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ³  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ⁴  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ⁵ )

[5:22]  ¹ tn Heb “burnt offerings and your grain offerings.”

[5:22]  ² tn Heb “Peace offering[s], your fattened calves, I will not look at.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[7:1]  ⁴ sn The crops planted late (consisting of vegetables) were planted in late January-early March and sprouted in conjunction with the spring rains of March-April. For a discussion of the ancient Israelite agricultural calendar, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 31-44.

[7:1]  ⁵ tn Or “the mowings of the king.”