Amos 5:21
“I have hated—I have loathed your festivals, || And I am not refreshed by your restraints.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
In Context
20Is not the Day of YHWH darkness and not light, || Even thick darkness that has no brightness?
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31and I have made your cities a ruin, and have made your sanctuaries desolate, and I do not smell your refreshing fragrance;
Proverbs 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination, || Much more when he brings it in wickedness.
Isaiah 1:11“Why the abundance of your sacrifices to Me?” says YHWH, || “I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, || And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, || And I have not desired male goats.
Isaiah 66:3Whoever slaughters the ox strikes a man, || Whoever sacrifices the lamb beheads a dog, || Whoever is bringing up a present—The blood of a sow, || Whoever is making mention of frankincense, || Is blessing iniquity. Indeed, they have fixed on their own ways, || And their soul has delighted in their abominations.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you permit those going in to enter.
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 →