16. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
17. And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
18. Woe to them 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 should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
21. I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
22. And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
23. Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
24. But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
25. Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
26. But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27. And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.