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20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I [a]will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me [b]your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the [c]peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:21 Hebrew will not smell a savor.
  2. Amos 5:22 Or, burnt-offerings with your meal-offerings
  3. Amos 5:22 Or, thank-offerings

20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(A) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(B)

21 “I hate,(C) I despise your religious festivals;(D)
    your assemblies(E) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(F) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.(G)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.(H)

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