Joel 1:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

A Call to Repentance and Prayer

¹³Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;
    wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in sackcloth,
    you ministers of my God!
Grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴Sanctify a fast,
    call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
    and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

¹⁵Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty^[a] it comes.

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Joel 1:15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

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