14. Seek good and not evil, so you may live, and so Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot may be with you —just as you said!
15. Hate evil, love good, maintain justice at the gate. Maybe Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will extend grace to Joseph’s remnant.
16. Therefore thus said Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, my Lord: “There will be wailing in all plazas and in all streets. They will say: ‘Alas! Alas!’ The farmer will be called to mourning along with those who know the lamentation song.
17. In all vineyards will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst” —Adonai has spoken.
18. Oy to you—longing for the Day of Adonai! What would it be for you? The Day of Adonai will be darkness and not light.
19. It will be as when a man is fleeing from a lion—and meets a bear! Or he comes home, leans his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him!
20. Will not the Day of Adonai be darkness, not light? Gloom, not brightness?
21. “I hate, I despise your festivals! I take no delight in your sacred assemblies.
22. Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened animals.
23. Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
24. But let justice roll like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.
25. Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to Me in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
26. But you lifted up your images —Siccuth your ‘king’, and Chiun, your star gods— which you made for yourselves,
27. So I will send you into exile, beyond Damascus.” Adonai has spoken, Elohei-Tzva’ot is His Name.