Joel 2:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;^(A)
16     gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the aged;
gather the children,
    even infants at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
    and the bride her canopy.^(B)

¹⁷ Between the vestibule and the altar,
    let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.
Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
    and do not make your heritage a mockery,
    a byword among the nations.
Why should it be said among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’ ”^(C)