Amos 5:16-18

Revised Standard Version

“In all the squares there shall be wailing;
    and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! alas!’
They shall call the farmers to mourning
    and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
¹⁷ and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,
    for I will pass through the midst of you,”
                says the Lord.

¹⁸ Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
    Why would you have the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, and not light;