Amos 5:18-27
Common English Bible
A statement of divine disgust
18 Doom to those who desire the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light;
19 as if someone fled from a lion,
and was met by a bear;
or sought refuge in a house,
rested a hand against the wall,
and was bitten by a snake.
20 Isn’t the day of the Lord darkness, not light;
all dark with no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I reject your festivals;
I don’t enjoy your joyous assemblies.
22 If you bring me your entirely burned offerings and gifts of food—
I won’t be pleased;
I won’t even look at your offerings of well-fed animals.
23 Take away the noise of your songs;
I won’t listen to the melody of your harps.
24 But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
during the forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?
26 You will take up Sakkuth your king,
and Kaiwan your star-god,
your images, which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore, I will take you away
beyond Damascus, says the Lord,
whose name is the God of heavenly forces.
Amos 5:18-27
New International Version
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)
21 “I hate,(I) I despise your religious festivals;(J)
your assemblies(K) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(L) and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.(M)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.(N)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(O)
24 But let justice(P) roll on like a river,
righteousness(Q) like a never-failing stream!(R)
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(S) and offerings
forty years(T) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
the pedestal of your idols,(U)
the star of your god[a]—
which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile(V) beyond Damascus,”
says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.(W)
Footnotes
- Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols
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