Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, I will not smell the savor of your festivals,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Won’t the Lord’s day be darkness and not light, murky darkness without a ray of light in it?

22I will not be pleased with your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, I will not accept the peace offerings of your fattened calves.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:13But alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you do not go in yourselves, and do not allow those who try to go in to do so.

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 →

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