18. Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.
19. It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.
20. Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
21. I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
22. For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.
23. Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
24. And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
25. Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?
26. And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch and the image of your idols: the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27. And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.