Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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18 Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is 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 if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should 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 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this gloom without brightness?
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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 feasts, and I will not smell meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
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“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept : neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.
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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 Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
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Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
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But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
25 Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
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“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which ye 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 And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.
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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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