20 Do not long for the night,

to drag people away from their homes.

20 Desire not the night,

When people are cut off in their place.

20 Do not long for the cover of night,

for that is when people will be destroyed.

20 Do not desire the night,

When people are cut off in their place.

20 Don’t wish for the night

when people are taken from their homes.

20 Desire not the night,

When peoples are cut off in their place.

20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

20 Don’t look forward to the night, 

when people disappear from their places. 

20 Do not long for the night

when nations will disappear from their places.

20 Do not long for the night,

when peoples are cut off in their place.

20 You must not long for the night,

to cut off people in their place.

20 Don’t long for the night to come

so you can drag people away from their homes.

20 “Do not long for the night,

When people vanish in their place.