A Call to Repentance
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t Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
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u Consecrate a fast,
Call v a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And w all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the LORD your God,
And cry out to the LORD.
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x Alas for the day!
For y the day of the LORD is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
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Is not the food z cut off before our eyes,
a Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
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How b the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
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O LORD, c to You I cry out;
For d fire has devoured the open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
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The beasts of the field also e cry out to You,
For f the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the open pastures.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 4:8
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us.
Ezekiel 7:18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:3
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly.
Joel 2:16
Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
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Cross References
Leviticus 23:36
For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:13
Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.
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Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.
Jeremiah 30:7
Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.
Amos 5:16
Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: " There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.
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Cross References
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Ezekiel 7:2 - 12
And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
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Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water.
Amos 4:6
Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Psalms 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.
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Cross References
1 Kings 8:5
Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn, And the herbs of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, For the wickedness of those who dwell there, Because they said, "He will not see our final end.
Jeremiah 14:5
Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field, But left because there was no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because there was no grass.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
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Cross References
Psalms 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.
Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, So that no one can pass through; Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; They are gone.
Amos 7:4
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
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Cross References
Job 38:41
Who provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wander about for lack of food?
Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry.
Joel 1:18
How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
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Cross References
1 Kings 17:7
And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
1 Kings 18:5
And Ahab had said to Obadiah, "Go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so that we will not have to kill any livestock.
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