Joel 2:15-17

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^15 (A)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    ^(B)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
¹⁶     gather the people.
^(C)Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the elders;
^(D)gather the children,
    even nursing infants.
^(E)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.
^17 (F)Between the ^(G)vestibule and the ^(H)altar
    ^(I)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
    and make not your heritage a reproach,
    a byword among the nations.^[a]
(J)Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”