Amos 5:18–27
18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!n
What will the day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.o
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lionp
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
be darkness rather than light,q
even gloom without any brightness in it?r
21 I hate, I despise, your feasts!s
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.t
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,u
I will not accept them;v
I will have no regard
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.w
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.x
24 But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.y
25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?z 26 But you have taken upD Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,* images you have made for yourselves.aa 27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”ab The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.ac He has spoken.