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16 Gather the people.
    Prepare them for a holy meeting.
        Assemble the leaders.
        Gather the children, even the nursing infants.

Grooms leave their rooms.
    Brides leave their chambers.
17 The priests who serve Yahweh cry
    between the altar and the entrance to the temple.
    They say,
    “Spare your people, O Yahweh.
        Don’t let the people who belong to you become a disgrace.
        Don’t let the nations ridicule them.
    Why should people ask, ‘Where is their Elohim?’”

The Lord Will Give Earthly Blessings to His People

18 Then Yahweh became concerned about his land,
    and he had pity on his people.

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