18Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light,

19as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

20Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

21"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

22Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.

23Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.

24But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god--your images that you made for yourselves,

27and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.