King James Version (KJV)
Amos 5:18
“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.”
Verse in context — Amos 5
16
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17
And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
18
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.
19
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20
[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?