20. The day of the Lord will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.
21. The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!
22. When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings.
23. Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps.
24. Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.
25. “People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.
26. But now, because you have worshipped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images
27. when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is Almighty God.