5:18. Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 5:19. As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. 5:20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it? 5:21. I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. 5:22. And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts. 5:23. Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp. 5:24. But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. 5:25. Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? Did you offer, etc... Except the sacrifices that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the desert. 5:26. But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves. A tabernacle, etc... All this alludes to the idolatry which they committed, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the worship of their gods. Num. 25. 5:27. And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name. Amos Chapter 6 The desolation of Israel for their pride and luxury. 6:1. Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel. 6:2. Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border. 6:3. You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; 6:4. You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; 6:5. You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David; 6:6. That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph. 6:7. Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away. 6:8. The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof. 6:9. And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.