13. Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.
14. Set apart a fast. Call an assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the House of יהוה your Elohim, and cry out to יהוה.
15. Alas for the day! For the day of יהוה is near, and it comes as destruction from the Almighty.
16. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the House of our Elohim?
17. The seed has rotted under their clods, storehouses are laid waste, granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered.
18. How the beasts moan! The herds of cattle are restless, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep also perish.