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.