Amos 5:21 - English Standard Version 2016 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 更多版本King 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 when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
“Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;
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!” declares the Lord God.
The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares 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.”
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist 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.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.