Amos 5:18
World English Bible (WEB)
“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
In context
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
17 In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the LORD.
18 “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
20 Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos 5:18 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why [is] this to you — the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:
- WBS Webster Bible
- Woe to 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.