Amos 5:21

Amos 5:21 in other translations

What does Amos 5:21 mean?

Amos 5:21 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Amos 5:21

• Isaiah 1:11-16

  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. …

• Proverbs 28:9

  He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

• Leviticus 26:31

  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

• Isaiah 66:3

  He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

• Jeremiah 6:20

  To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

• Proverbs 15:8

  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

• Hosea 8:13

  They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

• Genesis 8:21

  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 is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

• Proverbs 21:27

  The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

• Matthew 23:13

  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

• Ephesians 5:2

  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.

• Philippians 4:18

  But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

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Context

• Amos 5:20

  Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

• Amos 5:21

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

• Amos 5:22

  Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

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