64 Heb “Did you bring me …?” This rhetorical question expects a negative answer. The point seems to be this: Since sacrifices did not characterize God’s relationship with Israel during the nation’s formative years, the people should not consider them to be so fundamental. The Lord places a higher priority on justice than he does on empty ritual. Like Jer 7:22–23, this passage seems to contradict the Pentateuchal accounts that indicate Israel did offer sacrifices during the wilderness period. It is likely that both Amos and Jeremiah overstate the case to emphasize the relative insignificance of sacrifices in comparison to weightier matters of the covenant. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 428.
65 Heb “house.”

In other versions

“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings

forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

“Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?

Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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