Sound the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service:

gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set his face to seek the Lord earnestly, and he proclaimed a fast in all Judah.

And Judah gathered themselves together to seek after the Lord; even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

Seven days shall you offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord: it is a time of release, you shall do no customary work.

And [Ezra] read in the Book of the Law of God daily, from the first day even to the last day; and they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day [was] a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

You all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,

your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,

And all Judah was standing before the Lord, and their children, and their wives.

And the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

And they stood in their place, and read in the Book of the Law of the Lord their God; and they confessed [their sins] to the Lord, and worshipped the Lord their God.

So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloth, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned everyone from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,