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.
22 Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened animals.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
24 But let justice roll like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.
25 Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to Me in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?