Amos 5:21 - Exposition

Outward, formal worship will not avert the threatened danger or secure the favour of God in the day of visitation. Your feast days ( chaggim ); your feasts ; your counterfeit worship, the worship of the true God under an idol symbol (compare God's repudiation of merely formal worship in Isaiah 1:11-15 ). I will not smell; οὐ μὴ ἀσφρανθῶ θυσίας . No sweet savour ascends to God from such sacrifices; so the phrase is equivalent to "I will not accept," "I will take no delight in" (comp.. Genesis 8:21 ; Exodus 29:18 ; Le Exodus 26:31 ). Solemn assemblies; πανηγύρεσιν ; atsaroth ; the convocations for the keeping of the great festivals.