Amos 5:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a savor or take delight in your solemn assemblies.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Common English Bible

²¹ I hate, I reject your festivals; I don’t enjoy your joyous assemblies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

Amos 5:21 Cross References

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

Proverbs 28:9

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 66:3

“He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

Jeremiah 14:12

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Ezekiel 23:18

When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

Hosea 2:11

And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Hosea 8:13

They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the Lord has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Leviticus 26:31

And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Amos 4:4

“Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;

Amos 4:5

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” says the Lord God.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Philippians 4:18

I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.