16. Gather the people.Sanctify the assembly.Assemble the elders.Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.Let the bridegroom go out of his room,and the bride out of her room.
17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,and let them say, “Spare your people, Lord,and don’t give your heritage to reproach,that the nations should rule over them.Why should they say amongst the peoples,‘Where is their God?’”
18. Then the Lord was jealous for his land,And had pity on his people.
19. The Lord answered his people,“Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,and you will be satisfied with them;and I will no more make you a reproach amongst the nations.