Daily Bible GNT October 22 Verses

¹⁸How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the LORD! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light. ¹⁹It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall--only to be bitten by a snake! ²⁰The day of the LORD will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.

²¹The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! ²²When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings. ²³Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps. ²⁴Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.

²⁵"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert. ²⁶But now, because you have worshiped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images ²⁷when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is Almighty God.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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