Joel 2:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵ Sound the trumpet on Zion!
    Call the people together.
Show your sorrow
    by going without food.
^16 (A) Make sure that everyone
    is fit to worship me.^[a]
Bring adults, children, babies,
and even bring newlyweds
    from their festivities.

^17 (B) Tell my servants, the priests,
    to cry inside the temple
and to offer this prayer
    near the altar:^[b]
“Save your people, Lord God!
Don't let foreign nations
    make jokes about us.
Don't let them laugh and ask,
    ‘Where is your God?’ ”