Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.

The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.

Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where [is] their God?' "

For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us.

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, So that no one can pass through; Nor can [men] hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; They are gone.

They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame [will be] on every face, Baldness on all their heads.

Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat [of the things] of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of [the offerings of] the altar?

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

For [it is] evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.

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

And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water.

But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, They shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory you shall boast.

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

who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But in all [things] we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,

Are they ministers of Christ? -- I speak as a fool -- I [am] more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.

'You shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.

'And what is left of the grain offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons'. [It is] most holy of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.

'besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.