Add parallel Print Page Options

Lament over the Ruin of the Country

Hear this, O elders;
    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?(A)

Read full chapter

Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.(A)

Read full chapter

Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the towns of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

Read full chapter

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;(A)

Read full chapter

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.(A)

Read full chapter

Humans and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.(A)

Read full chapter