9  The ^hgrain offering and the drink offering are cut off

from the house of the Lord.

ⁱThe priests mourn,

the ministers of the Lord.

13  ^lPut 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 grain offering and drink offering

are withheld from the house of your God.

14  ^mConsecrate 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 out to the Lord.

16  Is not the food cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

14  ^jWho knows whether he will not turn and relent,

and leave a ^kblessing behind him,

a ^lgrain offering and a drink offering

for the Lord your God?

15  ^mBlow the trumpet in Zion;

ⁿconsecrate a fast;

call a solemn assembly;

16  gather the people.

Consecrate the congregation;

assemble the ^oelders;

gather the children,

even nursing infants.

Let the bridegroom leave his room,

and the bride her chamber.

17  ^pBetween the vestibule and the altar

^qlet the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep

and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,

and make not your heritage a ^rreproach,

a byword among the nations.¹

Why should they say among the peoples,

^s‘Where is their God?’”