New American Standard Bible 2020

Amos 5:16-20

16Therefore this is what the Lord God of armies, the Lord says: “There is 1mourning in all the public squares, And in all the streets they say, ‘Oh no! Oh no!’ They also call the 2farmer to mourning And 3 4professional mourners to mourning rites.17And in all the 5vineyards there is mourning, Because I will pass through the midst of you,” says the Lord.

18Woe to you who are longing for the 6day of the Lord, For what 7purpose will the day of the Lord be to you? It will be 8darkness and not light;19As when a man 9flees from a lion And a bear confronts him, 10Or he goes home, leans with his hand against the wall, And a snake bites him.20Will the day of the Lord not be 11darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?

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Notes

1. Amos 5:16 Jer 9:10, 18-20; Amos 8:3 ↩
2. Amos 5:16 Joel 1:11 ↩
3. Amos 5:16 Lit those who know mourning ↩
4. Amos 5:16 2 Chr 35:25; Jer 9:17 ↩
5. Amos 5:17 Is 16:10; Jer 48:33 ↩
6. Amos 5:18 Is 5:19; Jer 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31 ↩
7. Amos 5:18 Lit will this be to you, the day ↩
8. Amos 5:18 Is 5:30; Joel 2:2 ↩
9. Amos 5:19 Job 20:24; Is 24:17, 18; Jer 15:2, 3; 48:44 ↩
10. Amos 5:19 Or Then ↩
11. Amos 5:20 Is 13:10; Zeph 1:15 ↩

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