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.
25 “People of Israel, you did not bring me sacrifices and offeringswhile you traveled in the desert for forty years.