13. Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
14. Seek good and not evil, so that you live. And let יהוה Elohim of hosts be with you, as you have spoken.
15. Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might be that יהוה Elohim of hosts shows favour to the remnant of Yosĕph.
16. Therefore יהוה Elohim of hosts, יהוה, said this, “There is wailing in all open squares, and in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and shall call the farmer to mourning, and skilled lamenters to wailing.
17. “And in all vineyards there is wailing, for I pass through your midst,” said יהוה.
18. Woe to you who are longing for the day of יהוה! What does the day of יהוה mean to you? It is darkness, and not light,
19. as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear shall meet him; or entered his house, rested his hand on the wall, and a serpent shall bite him.
20. Is not the day of יהוה darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
21. “I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies.
22. “Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I do not accept them, nor do I look on your fattened peace offerings.
23. “Take away from Me the noise of your songs, for I do not hear the sound of your stringed instruments.
24. “And let right-ruling roll on like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25. “You brought Me slaughterings and meal offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Yisra’ĕl,
26. but you took up Sikkuth your sovereign and Kiyyun, your idols, your astral mighty ones, which you made for yourselves!
27. “Therefore I shall send you into exile beyond Damascus,” said יהוה Elohim of hosts – His Name.