Amos:5:18-27

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* Woe unto you that long for the day of the Lord ! for what do you wish the day of the Lord ? it is darkness , and not of light . * As if a man were to flee from a lion , and a bear should meet him ; and he enter into the house , and lean his hand against the wall , and a serpent should bite him . * Behold the day of the Lord is darkness , and not of light ; yea , it is obscure , and hath no brightness . * I hate , I despise your feast –days , and I will not smell on your festive assemblies . * For though ye should offer me burnt –offerings and your meat –offerings , I will not accept them in favor : and the peace –offerings of your fatted cattle will I not look at . * Remove thou from around me the noise of thy songs : and the playing of thy psalteries I will not hear . * But let justice roll along like water , and righteousness like a mighty stream . * Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and meat –offerings in the wilderness forty years , O house of Israel ? * Bear then the canopy of your chief idol , and the figure of your images , the star of your god , which ye have made for yourselves . * And I will cause you to go into exile far beyond Damascus , saith the Lord , The God of hosts is his name .

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