5:16 Because of Israel’s sins
“In all the squares there will be wailing,
in all the streets they will mourn the dead.
They will tell the field workers
and the professional mourners
5:17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing,
for I will pass through
5:18 Woe
Why do you want the Lord’s day of judgment to come?
It will bring darkness, not light.
5:19 Disaster will be inescapable,
as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear,
then escaped
leaned his hand against the wall,
and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
5:20 Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring
gloomy blackness, not bright light?