Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!
New American Standard Bible
Nor do I
King James Version
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Holman Bible
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.
International Standard Version
"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.
A Conservative Version
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
American Standard Version
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Amplified
“I hate, I despise and reject your [sacred] feasts,
And I do not take delight in your solemn assemblies.
Bible in Basic English
Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
Darby Translation
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.
Julia Smith Translation
I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.
King James 2000
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.
Modern King James verseion
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it.
New Heart English Bible
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
The Emphasized Bible
I hate, I despise your festivals, - and can scent no fragrance in your solemn feasts.
Webster
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
World English Bible
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:21
Images Amos 5:21
Prayers for Amos 5:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Day Of Yahweh
20 Don't you realize the Lord's day of judgment will bring darkness, not light -- gloomy blackness, not bright light? 21 "I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies! 22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
Isaiah 1:11-16
"Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?" says the Lord. "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.
Isaiah 66:3
The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog's neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig's blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.
Jeremiah 6:20
I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.'
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Proverbs 15:8
The Lord abhors the sacrifices of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
Proverbs 21:27
The wicked person's sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
Proverbs 28:9
The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
The Lord said to the people of Judah, "The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!
Hosea 8:13
They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the Lord does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.
Matthew 23:13
"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
Ephesians 5:2
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
Philippians 4:18
For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent -- a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.