¹⁸ Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!^(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?^(B)
    That day will be darkness,^(C) not light.^(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,^(E)
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.^(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,^(G) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?^(H)