rsv - Amos:5:18-27

rsv@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light;

rsv@Amos:5:19 @ as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

rsv@Amos:5:20 @ Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

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

rsv@Amos:5:22 @ Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon.

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

rsv@Amos:5:24 @ But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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

rsv@Amos:5:26 @ You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

rsv@Amos:5:27 @ therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.