Amos 5:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ There will be wailing in all the vineyards. All this will take place because I am coming to punish you.” The Lord has spoken.

¹⁸ How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light. ¹⁹ It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake!