19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
20Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
21Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
22Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
23Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
24But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
