Amos 5:16-20

New International Reader's Version

¹⁶The Lord God rules over all. The Lord says,

“People will weep in all the streets.
    They will be very sad in every market place.
Even farmers will be told to cry loudly.
    People will mourn for the dead.
¹⁷Workers will cry in all the vineyards.
    That’s because I will punish you,”
    says the Lord.

The Day of the Lord Is Coming

¹⁸How terrible it will be for you
    who long for the day of the Lord!
Why do you want it to come?
    That day will be dark, not light.
¹⁹It will be like a man running away from a lion
    only to meet a bear.
He enters his house and rests his hand on a wall
    only to be bitten by a snake.
²⁰The day of the Lord will be dark, not light.
    It will be very black.
    There won’t be a ray of sunlight anywhere.