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" I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from... "
The Psalms for Today - Page 77
by Beth LaNeel Tanner - 2008 - 93 pages
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History of the Hebrew Commonwealth

Albert Edward Bailey, Charles Foster Kent - 1920 - 452 pages
...than the words of Jehovah as uttered by Amos (521-24) : "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt-offerings and cereal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings...
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Introduction to the Bible

1971 - 564 pages
...at the offering of sacrifices and the attendance at noisy festivals: I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not...
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Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament: Volume XIII

G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, Heinz-Josef Fabry - 1974 - 692 pages
...similar: "Even though you offer me your burnt offering ... I have no pleasure in your grain offerings: the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon." On the basis of this latter text. Wdrthwein has contended that oracular extispicy was practiced in...
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The Predicament of the Prosperous

Bruce C. Birch, Larry L. Rasmussen - 1978 - 220 pages
...famous passage from Amos speaks to the community of faith in all times. I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them. . . . Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody...
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These Things are Written: An Introduction to the Religious Ideas of the Bible

James M. Efird - 1978 - 172 pages
...proclaimed the famous statement that has been identified so often with him: I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not...
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Doxology: A Systematic Theology

Geoffrey Wainwright - 1984 - 626 pages
...of Israel's iniquity is apparent in the thunderous phrases of Amos : I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offering and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts...
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Genesis

2006 - 342 pages
...and much prefer nowadays to listen to an Amos condemning them: 1 hate, I despise your feasts and 1 take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, 1 will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not...
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Twelve Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, and Jonah

Peter C. Craigie - 1984 - 260 pages
...Lord darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? 2I"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. "Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts 1 will not...
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Be My Witnesses: The Church's Mission, Message, and Messengers

Darrell L. Guder - 1985 - 256 pages
...done and all humanity know a life marked by righteousness and peace: I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not...
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What Does the Lord Require?: The Old Testament Call to Social Witness

Bruce C. Birch - 1985 - 124 pages
...prayer is not possible apart from God's mission to heal a broken world. I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them . . . Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody...
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