Amos 5:21 ““I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your sole…”

Amos 5:21

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

World English Bible

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

American Standard Version

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Geneva Bible 1599

I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smelll in your solemne assemblies.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

I have hated — I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

Bible in Basic English

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

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Cross references

“hate”

Isaiah 1:11–16 Proverbs 28:9 Isaiah 66:3 Jeremiah 6:20 Proverbs 15:8 Hosea 8:13

Isaiah 1:11–16 · BSB

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Proverbs 28:9 · BSB

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Isaiah 66:3 · BSB

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is li…

Jeremiah 6:20 · BSB

What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

Proverbs 15:8 · BSB

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Hosea 8:13 · BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

“I will”

Leviticus 26:31 Genesis 8:21 Ephesians 5:2 Philippians 4:18

Leviticus 26:31 · BSB

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Genesis 8:21 · BSB

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all l…

Ephesians 5:2 · BSB

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Philippians 4:18 · BSB

I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

Also

Matthew 23:13

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

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