Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
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16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mournersto wail.
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Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.
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There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord! What will the Day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
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Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.
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It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
20 Won't the Day of the Lord be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?
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Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21 I hate, I despise your feasts! I can't stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
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“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even if you offer Me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept [them]; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.
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Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
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But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
25 "House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?
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“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 But you have taken up Sakkuthyour king and Kaiwanyour star god, images you have made for yourselves.
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You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god — which you made for yourselves.
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