Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Joel 2:14-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

15. Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

16. Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

17. Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

18. The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his people.