Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
BSB
ASV
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
KJV
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Proverbs 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
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If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
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Isaiah 66:3Whoever 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…
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“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
“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…
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Jeremiah 6:20What 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.”
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“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…
I hate, I despise your feasts - Israel clave to its heart’s sin, the worship of the true God, under the idol-form of the calf; else, it would fain be conscientious and scrupulous. It had its “feasts” of solemn “joy” and the “restraint” of its “solemn assemblies” , which all were constrained to keep, abstaining from all servile work. They offered “whole burnt offerings,” the token of self-sacrifice, in which the sacrificer retained nothing to himself, but gave the whole freely to God. They offered also “peace offerings,” as tokens of the willing thankfulness of souls at peace with God.
I do not acknowledge them: unlike those in Judah, yours are of human, not divine institution. I will not smell--that is, I will take no delight in the sacrifices offered (Ge 8:21; Le 26:31). in your solemn assemblies--literally, "days of restraint." Isa 1:10-15 is parallel.
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