Amos 5:21 - American Standard Version 2015 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a savor or take delight in your solemn assemblies. American Standard Version (1901) I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Common English Bible I hate, I reject your festivals; I don’t enjoy your joyous assemblies. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. |
And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah;\par\tab But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination:\par\tab How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,\par\tab Even his prayer is an abomination.
He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, {\i as he that offereth} swine's blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.\par
To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, {\i and} multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, {\i and} your tithes every three days;
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.\par
The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.\par
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.\par
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.\par
But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things {\i that came} from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.