Lament to Me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The grain offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, and howl; for the anger of the Lord has not turned away from you.

Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate from a lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle. They were amazed, they are gone.

And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, [even] upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar?

For He concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord has risen out of Judah, regarding which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

And David inquired of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineveh by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

But you shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God; you shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.

Let a man so consider us, as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] even more: in labors far more, in beatings immeasurably, in imprisonments far more, in deaths often.

The grain offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

And he shall offer the sacrifice which he shall make of these to the Lord, and shall bring it to the priest.

And that which is left of the sacrifice [shall be] for Aaron and his sons, most holy from the burnt offerings of the Lord.

Beside the whole burnt offerings for the new moon, and their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, and their perpetual whole burnt offering; and their grain offerings and their drink offerings according to their ordinance for a sweet-smelling savor to the Lord.