A moment in scripture
Amos 5:21
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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The surrounding passage
- Amos 5:19
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 him.
- Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Amos 5:22
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.
- Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.