Amos 5:21
Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
In Context
20Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
Proverbs 21:27The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Isaiah 1:11What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Isaiah 66:3A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Jeremiah 7:21These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Matthew 23:13But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:17-21
Threatenings and Reproofs. ( b. c. 790.) 16 Therefore the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord . 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man… Read the whole commentary →