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I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/amos/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/amos/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/amos/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your festive assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/amos/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/amos/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/amos/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“I hate, I reject your feasts, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/amos/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“I hate, I despise <i>and</i> reject your [sacred] feasts, And I do not take delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/amos/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/amos/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts! I can&#8217t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/amos/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/amos/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I, the LORD, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/amos/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/amos/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I hate your festivals; I despise them. I'm not pleased with your religious assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/amos/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/amos/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"I hate—I despise—your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/amos/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/amos/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/amos/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/amos/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/amos/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/amos/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“I have hated—I have loathed your festivals, "" And I am not refreshed by your restraints.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/amos/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/amos/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/amos/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/amos/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/amos/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/amos/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/amos/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell the savor of your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/amos/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />I have hated and I have despised your feasts and I will not smell your Feast of Pentecost<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/amos/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />I hate, I despise your feasts, And I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/amos/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell <i>your</i> meat-offerings in your general assemblies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-21.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4uh7eMswjw?start=909" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/amos/5.htm">The Day of the LORD</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8130.htm" title="8130: śā·nê·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To hate. A primitive root; to hate.">“I hate,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3988.htm" title="3988: mā·’as·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To spurn, to disappear. A primitive root; to spurn; also to disappear.">I despise</a> <a href="/hebrew/2282.htm" title="2282: ḥag·gê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast. Or chag; from chagag; a festival, or a victim therefor.">your feasts!</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">I cannot</a> <a href="/hebrew/7306.htm" title="7306: ’ā·rî·aḥ (V-Hifil-Imperf-1cs) -- A primitive root; properly, to blow, i.e. Breathe; only to smell or (figuratively, to anticipate, enjoy).">stand the stench</a> <a href="/hebrew/6116.htm" title="6116: bə·‘aṣ·ṣə·rō·ṯê·ḵem (Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 2mp) -- An assembly. Or matsereth; from atsar; an assembly, especially on a festival or holiday.">of your solemn assemblies.</a> </span><span class="reftext">22</span>Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-15</a></span><br />“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a></span><br />With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a></span><br />For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a></span><br />What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3-4</a></span><br />Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations. / So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm">Mark 7:6-7</a></span><br />Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/51-16.htm">Psalm 51:16-17</a></span><br />For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/58-1.htm">Isaiah 58:1-7</a></span><br />“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. / For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.” / “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a></span><br />But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Luke 11:42</a></span><br />Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/21-3.htm">Proverbs 21:3</a></span><br />To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm">Isaiah 29:13</a></span><br />Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm">Matthew 15:8-9</a></span><br />‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.</p><p class="hdg">hate.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/15-8.htm">Proverbs 15:8</a></b></br> The sacrifice of the wicked <i>is</i> an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright <i>is</i> his delight.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/21-27.htm">Proverbs 21:27</a></b></br> The sacrifice of the wicked <i>is</i> abomination: how much more, <i>when</i> he bringeth it with a wicked mind?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/28-9.htm">Proverbs 28:9</a></b></br> He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer <i>shall be</i> abomination.</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Genesis 8:21</a></b></br> And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart <i>is</i> evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a></b></br> And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2</a></b></br> And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.</p><p class="hdg">smell in your solemn assemblies.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">Assemblies</a> <a href="/joel/1-16.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Despise</a> <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/amos/4-1.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/hosea/12-9.htm">Feasts</a> <a href="/hosea/5-7.htm">Festivals</a> <a href="/amos/5-15.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Hated</a> <a href="/amos/4-2.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-19.htm">Loathed</a> <a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">Meetings</a> <a href="/numbers/28-27.htm">Odour</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-25.htm">Refreshed</a> <a href="/hosea/9-17.htm">Reject</a> <a href="/james/1-27.htm">Religious</a> <a href="/galatians/3-23.htm">Restraints</a> <a href="/joel/2-20.htm">Smell</a> <a href="/joel/2-15.htm">Solemn</a> <a href="/amos/2-15.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/joel/3-18.htm">Sweet</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zephaniah/3-18.htm">Assemblies</a> <a href="/micah/1-16.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/micah/3-9.htm">Despise</a> <a href="/amos/6-8.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-17.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/amos/8-10.htm">Feasts</a> <a href="/amos/8-10.htm">Festivals</a> <a href="/amos/6-8.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/amos/6-8.htm">Hated</a> <a href="/amos/7-9.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-8.htm">Loathed</a> <a href="/acts/11-26.htm">Meetings</a> <a href="/john/12-3.htm">Odour</a> <a href="/romans/15-32.htm">Refreshed</a> <a href="/mark/6-26.htm">Reject</a> <a href="/matthew/3-15.htm">Religious</a> <a href="/galatians/3-23.htm">Restraints</a> <a href="/john/11-39.htm">Smell</a> <a href="/nahum/1-15.htm">Solemn</a> <a href="/amos/7-2.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Sweet</a><div class="vheading2">Amos 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/5-1.htm">A lamentation for Israel.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/5-4.htm">An exhortation to repentance.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">God rejects their hypocritical service.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of Amos, the Israelites were observing religious rituals while simultaneously engaging in injustice and idolatry. The feasts, which were meant to honor God, had become empty ceremonies devoid of true worship and righteousness. This echoes <a href="/isaiah/1-14.htm">Isaiah 1:14</a>, where God expresses similar disdain for hollow religious practices. The use of both "hate" and "despise" emphasizes the intensity of God's rejection. The feasts likely refer to the major Jewish festivals such as Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, which were central to Israelite worship. However, without genuine repentance and ethical living, these observances were meaningless to God.<p><b>I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.</b><br>The term "stench" indicates that the gatherings, which were supposed to be pleasing to God, had become repugnant. This imagery suggests that the insincerity and hypocrisy of the people had corrupted their worship. Solemn assemblies were times of gathering for worship, prayer, and sacrifice, as seen in <a href="/leviticus/23-36.htm">Leviticus 23:36</a>. However, the moral and spiritual corruption of the people rendered these assemblies offensive to God. This sentiment is echoed in other prophetic writings, such as <a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm">Isaiah 1:13</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a>, where God rejects offerings and sacrifices that are not accompanied by justice and righteousness. The phrase underscores the biblical principle that God desires obedience and a contrite heart over ritualistic observance (<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a>, <a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/a/amos.htm">Amos</a></b><br>A prophet from Tekoa, a small town in Judah, who was called by God to deliver messages of judgment and repentance to the Northern Kingdom of Israel during a time of prosperity and moral decay.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, which had fallen into idolatry and social injustice despite its outward religious observances.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/feasts_and_solemn_assemblies.htm">Feasts and Solemn Assemblies</a></b><br>Religious festivals and gatherings that were part of Israel's worship practices, which had become empty rituals devoid of true devotion and justice.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/true_worship_vs._empty_rituals.htm">True Worship vs. Empty Rituals</a></b><br>God desires genuine worship that reflects a heart aligned with His values, not mere outward observance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_stench_of_hypocrisy.htm">The Stench of Hypocrisy</a></b><br>Religious activities without a corresponding life of justice and righteousness are offensive to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Like Israel, we are called to examine our lives and repent from hypocrisy, ensuring our worship is sincere and transformative.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/social_justice_as_worship.htm">Social Justice as Worship</a></b><br>True worship includes advocating for justice and righteousness in our communities, reflecting God's heart for the oppressed.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_complacency.htm">The Danger of Complacency</a></b><br>Prosperity can lead to spiritual complacency; we must remain vigilant in our devotion and obedience to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_amos_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Amos 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_reject_these_festivals.htm">Amos 5:21–23 – Why does God reject these religious festivals, yet in other books He commands and even delights in similar observances? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_book_of_amos_about.htm">What is the Book of Amos about?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_justice_flow_like_a_river.htm">Can justice flow like a river?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_emphasize_'true_fast'_over_rituals.htm">Isaiah 58:5 – Why emphasize a “true fast” if God mandated so many ritual practices in earlier laws, suggesting a potential conflict between ceremony and genuine devotion? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/amos/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21, 22) These verses closely resemble the condemnation which Isaiah pronounces (<a href="/context/amos/1-10.htm" title="But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.">Amos 1:10-15</a>) upon mere ritual, however punctilious, mere profession of orthodoxy, however exacting, which was not accompanied by righteousness and mercy, and was not the expression of inward penitence and purity.<p><span class= "bld">Will not smell in your</span> <span class= "bld">. . .</span>--A strong expression for "I take no delight in them." That Baal worship, as well as the worship of the true God, was characterised by similar offerings and sacrificial terms is indicated by a Ph?nician tablet inscribed with a code of sacrificial dues, discovered at Marseilles. The word rendered peace offering should be translated as in the margin. The word for "<span class= "ital">meat</span> offering" is better interpreted "<span class= "ital">meal</span> offerings," since it consisted of vegetable products used in food, meal, oil, cakes, &c.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/amos/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - Outward, formal worship will not avert the threatened danger or secure the favour of God in the day of visitation. <span class="cmt_word">Your feast days</span> (<span class="accented">chaggim</span>); <span class="accented">your feasts</span>; your counterfeit worship, the worship of the true God under an idol symbol (compare God's repudiation of merely formal worship in <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-15</a>). <span class="cmt_word">I will not smell;</span> <span class="greek">οὐ μὴ</span> <span class="greek">ἀσφρανθῶ θυσίας</span> (Septuagint). No sweet savour ascends to God from such sacrifices; so the phrase is equivalent to "I will not accept," "I will take no delight in" (comp.. <a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Genesis 8:21</a>; <a href="/exodus/29-18.htm">Exodus 29:18</a>; <a href="/leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Solemn assemblies;</span> <span class="greek">πανηγύρεσιν</span> (Septuagint); <span class="accented">atsaroth</span>; the convocations for the keeping of the great festivals. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/amos/5-21.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">I hate,</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂנֵ֥אתִי</span> <span class="translit">(śā·nê·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8130.htm">Strong's 8130: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I despise</span><br /><span class="heb">מָאַ֖סְתִּי</span> <span class="translit">(mā·’as·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3988.htm">Strong's 3988: </a> </span><span class="str2">To spurn, to disappear</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your feasts!</span><br /><span class="heb">חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(ḥag·gê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2282.htm">Strong's 2282: </a> </span><span class="str2">A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I cannot</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">stand the stench</span><br /><span class="heb">אָרִ֖יחַ</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·rî·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7306.htm">Strong's 7306: </a> </span><span class="str2">Accept, smell, touch, make of quick understanding </span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your solemn assemblies.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּעַצְּרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·‘aṣ·ṣə·rō·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6116.htm">Strong's 6116: </a> </span><span class="str2">An assembly, on a, festival, holiday</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">OT Prophets: Amos 5:21 I hate I despise your feasts (Amo. 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