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.