nsb - Amos:5:18-27

nsb@Amos:5:18 @ »Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! What will the day of Jehovah mean to you? It is darkness, and not light.

nsb@Amos:5:19 @ »Like a man who ran from a lion, and a bear met him! So he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

nsb@Amos:5:20 @ »Will the day of Jehovah be darkness with no light? Will it be very dark, and no brightness in it?

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

nsb@Amos:5:22 @ »Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them. Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

nsb@Amos:5:23 @ »Take the noise of your songs away from me! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

nsb@Amos:5:24 @ »Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

nsb@Amos:5:25 @ »Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

nsb@Amos:5:26 @ »You have carried the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

nsb@Amos:5:27 @ »Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,« said the God of Hosts, whose name is Jehovah.