Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn 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.
NET Bible
"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious 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 Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies. 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
Isaiah 1:11-16
"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 66:3
He who slaughters an ox is like one who strikes down a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.'
Genesis 8:21
The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the LORD doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
Matthew 23:13
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter."
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Philippians 4:18
But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.