13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the earth into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD.
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, the joy and the gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed has rotted under their clods, the storehouses were laid desolate, the barns were destroyed for the wheat is withered. 18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.
19 O LORD, to thee will I cry for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. 20 The beasts of the field also cry unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the meadows of the wilderness.