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Amos 5:21 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. "
Amos 5:21
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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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Amos 5:1
"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."
Amos 5:2
"The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up."
Amos 5:3
"For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel."
Amos 5:4
"For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
Amos 5:5
"But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought."
Amos 5:6
"Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel."
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