Amos 5:16-20

21st Century King James Version

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord saith thus: “Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

¹⁷ And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through thee,” saith the Lord.

¹⁸ Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! To what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light:

¹⁹ as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

²⁰ Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?