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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Amos 5:21 Catholic Bible: The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/amos/5-21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/amos/5-21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/amos/5-21.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/amos/1.htm">Amos</a> > <a href="/gntd/amos/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/5-20.htm" title="Amos 5:20">◄</a> Amos 5:21 <a href="../amos/5-22.htm" title="Amos 5:22">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/amos/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/amos/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! <p><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.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/amos/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I, the LORD, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship. <p><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. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.</p><p class="hdg">hate.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/15-8.htm">Proverbs 15:8</a> The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/21-27.htm">Proverbs 21:27</a> The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/28-9.htm">Proverbs 28:9</a> He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-16</a> To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a> He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a> To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21-23</a> Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a> They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/23-14.htm">Matthew 23:14</a> Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/8-21.htm">Genesis 8:21</a> And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a> Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2</a> And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/4-18.htm">Philippians 4:18</a> But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.</p><p class="hdg">smell in your solemn assemblies.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/amos/5.htm">The Day of the LORD</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it? <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl">I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.</span><span class="reftext">22</span>And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a></span><br />Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11</a></span><br />To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a></span><br />He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/14-12.htm">Jeremiah 14:12</a></span><br />When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-18.htm">Ezekiel 23:18</a></span><br />And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/2-11.htm">Hosea 2:11</a></span><br />And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/5-6.htm">Hosea 5:6</a></span><br />With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/4-4.htm">Amos 4:4</a></span><br />Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/4-5.htm">Amos 4:5</a></span><br />And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/6-8.htm">Amos 6:8</a></span><br />The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span 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