19. as if someone fled away from a lion,but a bear attacked him,or got into the houseand rested his hand on the wall,but a snake bit him.
20. Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?Will it not be deep darkness, with no brightness in it?
21. I hate, I despise your festivals,and I am not pleased by your solemn assemblies.
22. Though you offer Me burnt offerings or your grain offerings,I will not accept them,nor will I regard the offeringsof your fattened animals.
23. Take away from Me the noise of your songs;I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
24. But let justice roll down like water,and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25. Did you bring Me sacrifices and offeringsthose forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26. But you will carry away Sukuth your kingand Kaiwan your star-images,your gods that you made for yourselves,
27. as I drive you away into exile beyond Damascus,says the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts.