jps - Amos:5:18-27

jps@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

jps@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

jps@Amos:5:20 @ Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

jps@Amos:5:21 @ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

jps@Amos:5:22 @ Yea, though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace- offerings of your fat beasts.

jps@Amos:5:23 @ Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.

jps@Amos:5:24 @ But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

jps@Amos:5:25 @ Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

jps@Amos:5:26 @ So shall ye take up Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

jps@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith He, whose name is the LORD God of hosts.