Amos 5:16-20

16Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.

17In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.

18Woe to those who wish for the day of the Lord! Why do you want the Lord’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

20Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light – gloomy blackness, not bright light?