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I hate,שָׂנֵאתִיI rejectמָאַסְתִּיyour feasts,חַגֵּיכֶםand I take noוְלֹאdelightאָרִיחַin your solemn assemblies.בְּעַצְּרֹתֵיכֶם
Amos 5:21
Study it in the app“I hate, I reject your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.”
God rejects feasts and songs if justice and right do not flowPraise and worshipGod rejects feasts and songs while justice is missing: let it flow like a streamJustice and mercy
With the Hebrew beneath
Amos 5:21, word by word
- I hateשָׂנֵאתִיsaneti
hate
To feel rejection and hostility toward someone, to the point of wishing him harm.
Where else “saneti” appears- I rejectמָאַסְתִּיmaasti
reject
To regard something or someone as worthless and put it away.
Where else “maasti” appears- your feastsחַגֵּיchage
festival
Festival in honor of God, with pilgrimage.
Where else “chage” appears- delightאָרִיחַariach
delight
To take pleasure in something.
Where else “ariach” appears- in your solemn assembliesעַצְּרֹתֵיatsrote
solemn assembly
A gathering of the people on a feast day.
Where else “atsrote” appears
The context
20Is not the day of YHWH darkness, and not light, and gloom, with no brightness in it?
21 · This verse (above)
22Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals I will not look at.