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18 Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD , For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to 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 As when a man flees from a lion And a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites 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 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no 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 reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
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“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 "Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
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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 even listen to the sound 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 roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
25 "Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
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“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 "You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you 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.
27 "Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD , whose name is the God of hosts.
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Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.
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