Amos 5:18-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

²⁰ Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

²¹ I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

²² And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

²³ Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

²⁴ But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

²⁵ Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

²⁶ But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

²⁷ And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.