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Amos 5

Amos 5:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I hate
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
, I despise
ma'ac (Hebrew #3988)
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
KJV usage: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.
Pronounce: maw-as'
Origin: a primitive root
your feast days
chag (Hebrew #2282)
from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor
KJV usage: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Pronounce: khag
Origin: or chag {khawg}
, and I will not smell
ruwach (Hebrew #7306)
properly, to blow, i.e. breathe; only (literally) to smell or (by implication, perceive (figuratively, to anticipate, enjoy)
KJV usage: accept, smell, X touch, make of quick understanding.
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: a primitive root
θin your solemn assemblies
`atsarah (Hebrew #6116)
from 6113; an assembly, especially on a festival or holiday
KJV usage: (solemn) assembly (meeting).
Pronounce: ats-aw-raw'
Origin: or matsereth {ats-eh'-reth}
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or, your holy days.

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Prov. 15:8• 8The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But the prayer of the upright [is] His delight. (Prov. 15:8)
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Prov. 21:27• 27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;{HR}How much more [when] he bringeth it with a wicked purpose! (Prov. 21:27)
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Prov. 28:9• 9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,{HR}Even his prayer is an abomination. (Prov. 28:9)
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Isa. 1:11‑16• 11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah: 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.
 12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
 13Bring no more vain oblations: incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies, — I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn meeting.
 14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
 16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. (Isa. 1:11‑16)
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Isa. 66:3• 3He that killeth an ox slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation [is as] swine's blood; he that burneth incense [is as] he that blesseth an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations, (Isa. 66:3)
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Jer. 6:20• 20To 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. (Jer. 6:20)
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Jer. 7:21‑23• 21Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
 22For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;
 23but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you. (Jer. 7:21‑23)
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Hos. 8:13• 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it: Jehovah accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. (Hos. 8:13)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse not included in this translation). (Matt. 23:14)
I will.
Gen. 8:21• 21And Jehovah smelled the odour of rest. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not any more again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will not any more again smite every living thing as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)
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Lev. 26:31• 31And I will lay waste your cities, and desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. (Lev. 26:31)
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Eph. 5:2• 2even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell. (Eph. 5:2)
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Phil. 4:18• 18But I have all things and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. (Phil. 4:18)
smell in your solemn assemblies.
or, smell your holy days.
• {v.21-24} The pretense of honoring Him in sacrifice and feast-day, in song or harp, was odious, joined as all was with self-will and departure from His word, and the setting up of idols. (“Amos 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.

W. Kelly Translation

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