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19 It will be like a man who runs from a lion,
    only to encounter a bear;
or who comes home, leans his hand against a wall,
    and a serpent bites him!
20 Will not the Day of the Lord be darkness, and not light—
    pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?”

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21 “I hate—I despise—your festival days,
    and your solemn convocations stink.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:21 Lit. and I smell no pleasant scent in your solemn assemblies