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Amos 5:18

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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

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  1. Amos 5:16

    Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

  2. Amos 5:17

    And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

  3. Amos 5:19

    As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  4. Amos 5:20

    Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.