11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
(A)Be troubled, you complacent daughters;
(B)Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,

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11 Tremble,(A) you complacent women;
    shudder, you daughters who feel secure!(B)
Strip off your fine clothes(C)
    and wrap yourselves in rags.(D)

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13 (A)Put on sackcloth
And mourn, you priests;
(B)Wail, you ministers of the altar!
Come, (C)spend the night in sackcloth,
You ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Have been withheld from the house of your God.

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A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth,(A) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister(B) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings(C)
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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17 Let the priests, the Lords ministers,
Weep (A)between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “[a](B)Spare Your people, Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance a (C)disgrace,
With the nations jeering at them.
Why should those among the peoples say,
(D)Where is their God?’”

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:17 Or Look compassionately on

17 Let the priests, who minister(A) before the Lord,
    weep(B) between the portico and the altar.(C)
Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord.
    Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,(D)
    a byword(E) among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?(F)’”

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