14. Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:
15. Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.
16. Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17. The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.
18. Why did the beast groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.