Amos 5:17-19

New Century Version

¹⁷ People will be crying in all the vineyards,
    because I will pass among you to punish you,” says the Lord.

¹⁸ How terrible it will be for you who want
    the Lord’s day of judging to come.
Why do you want that day to come?
    It will bring darkness for you, not light.
¹⁹ It will be like someone who runs from a lion
    and meets a bear,
or like someone who goes into his house
    and puts his hand on the wall,
    and then is bitten by a snake.