19. It will be like someone who runs from a lionand meets a bear,or like someone who goes into his houseand puts his hand on the wall,and then is bitten by a snake.
20. So the Lord’s day of judging will bring darkness, not light;it will be very dark, not light at all.
21. The Lord says, “I hate and reject your feasts;I cannot stand your religious meetings.
22. If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings,I won’t accept them.You bring your best fellowship offerings of fattened cattle,but I will ignore them.
23. Take the noise of your songs away from me!I won’t listen to the music of your harps.
24. But let justice flow like a river,and let goodness flow like a never-ending stream.
25. “People of Israel, you did not bring me sacrifices and offeringswhile you traveled in the desert for forty years.
26. You have carried with youyour king, the god Sakkuth,and Kaiwan your idol,and the star gods you have made.
27. So I will send you away as captives beyond Damascus,”says the Lord, whose name is the God All-Powerful.