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- Even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?
- Blow the trumpet in Zion,
- Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
- Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders,
- Gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:
- Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
- Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,
- And let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord,
- And give not thine heritage to reproach,
- That the heathen should rule over them:
- Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
- Then will the Lord be jealous for his land,
- And pity his people.
- Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people,
- Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil,
- And ye shall be satisfied therewith:
- And I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
- But I will remove far off from you the northern army,
- And will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
- With his face toward the east sea,
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