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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?

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14 Declare a holy fast;(A)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land(B)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out(C) to the Lord.(D)

15 Alas for that(E) day!
    For the day of the Lord(F) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a](G)

16 Has not the food been cut off(H)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness(I)
    from the house of our God?(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai