Joel 1:13-15

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A Call to Repentance and Prayer

¹³Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests,
    wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
    O ministers of my God!
Because cereal 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 to the Lord.

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

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