15. Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16. Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Sovereign: In all the streets, there will be wailing. And in every place where they are outdoors, they will say, "Woe, woe!" And they will call the farmer to mourn, and those who know mourning to lamentation.
17. And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord.
18. Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.
19. It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.
20. Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
21. I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
22. For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.
23. Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
24. And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
25. Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?
26. And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch and the image of your idols: the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27. And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.