13. Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God
14. Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God and cry unto Jehovah.
15. Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God