Joel 2:16-18

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁶ Gather the people.
    Consecrate the assembly.
    Bring together the elders.
    Gather the children, even those nursing at the breast.
    Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.
¹⁷ Let the priests, who minister before the Lord,
    weep between the temple porch and the altar.
    Let them say:
        Have compassion on your people, O Lord.
        Do not subject the inheritance you have given us to the scorn of the nations.
        Do not make us notorious among the nations as an object of ridicule.^[a]
        Why should they say among the peoples,
        “Where is their God?”

¹⁸ The Lord is zealous for his land,
    and he will take pity on his people.