Amos 5:18-27 ▼

18 |Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.

19 It will be like a man who runs from a lion, only to encounter a bear; or who comes home, leans his hand against a wall, and a serpent bites him!

20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light— pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?|

21 |I hate—I despise—your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

22 And if you send up burnt offerings to me as well as your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I consider your peace offerings of fattened cattle.

23 Spare me your noisy singing— I will not listen to your musical instruments.

24 |But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river.

25 |Was it to me that you brought offerings and gifts in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel?

26 And you carried the tent of your king — and Saturn, your star god idols that you crafted for yourselves.

27 So I will cause you to be taken captive beyond Damascus,| says the LORD, whose name is God of the Heavenly Armies.