Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. 17And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. 18Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. 20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it? 21I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. 22And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts. 23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp. 24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. 25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? 26But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves. 27And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.