Blow the shofar in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a solemn assembly.

Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set his face to seek Jehovah, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

So Judah gathered together to seek the face of Jehovah; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the face of Jehovah.

For seven days you shall offer an offering by fire unto Jehovah. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering by fire unto Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly, and you shall do no labor of work.

Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

All of you are standing today before Jehovah your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel;

your little ones and your wives; and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, were standing before Jehovah.

Then the seed of Israel separated themselves from the children of the foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of Jehovah their God for a fourth part of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and prostrated themselves before Jehovah their God.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. And let them call mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.