Amos 5:21

21 Je hais, je méprise vos fêtes; je ne prends point plaisir à vos assemblées solennelles.

Amos 5:21 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feast days
Kimchi thinks this is said, and what follows, with respect to the kingdom of the house of Judah, which kept the feast the Lord commanded; but it is not necessary so to understand it; for doubtless the ten tribes imitated the worship at Jerusalem, and kept the feasts as the Jews did there, in the observance of which they trusted; but the Lord rejects their vain confidence, and lets them know that these were no ways acceptable to him; and were so far from atoning for their sins, that they were hated, abhorred, and despised by him, being observed in such a manner and with such a view as they were; and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies;
a sweet savour of rest, as in ( Genesis 8:21 ) ; take no pleasure in their duties and services performed, in their solemn assemblies convened together for religious purposes, nor accept of them; but, on the contrary, dislike and abhor them; see ( Isaiah 1:11-14 ) .

Amos 5:21 In-Context

19 Comme un homme, qui fuit devant un lion, et que rencontre un ours; qui entre dans la maison, appuie sa main sur le mur, et un serpent le mord.

20 Le jour de l'Éternel, n'est-il pas ténèbres, et non lumière? obscurité, et non clarté?

21 Je hais, je méprise vos fêtes; je ne prends point plaisir à vos assemblées solennelles.

22 Si vous me présentez des holocaustes, je n'agréerai point vos offrandes, je ne regarderai point les bêtes grasses de vos sacrifices de prospérités.

23 Éloigne de moi le bruit de tes cantiques! Je ne veux pas entendre le son de tes luths.