18. How terrible it will be for you who wantthe Lord’s day of judging to come.Why do you want that day to come?It will bring darkness for you, not light.
19. It will be like someone who runs from a lionand meets a bear,or like someone who goes into his houseand puts his hand on the wall,and then is bitten by a snake.
20. So the Lord’s day of judging will bring darkness, not light;it will be very dark, not light at all.
21. The Lord says, “I hate and reject your feasts;I cannot stand your religious meetings.
22. If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings,I won’t accept them.You bring your best fellowship offerings of fattened cattle,but I will ignore them.
23. Take the noise of your songs away from me!I won’t listen to the music of your harps.
24. But let justice flow like a river,and let goodness flow like a never-ending stream.