Joel 1:14-16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁴ Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land in the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord [in penitent pleadings].

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of [the judgment of] the Lord is at hand, and as a destructive tempest from the Almighty will it come.^(A)

¹⁶ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?