“Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.”
The exhortation to the priests to gird on sackcloth and lamentation indicates that the religious leadership must join in the national mourning, suggesting that judgment calls all people, especially the priests, to repentance and sorrow. The instruction to spend the night in sackcloth suggests extended mourning and fasting. This verse indicates that the priests have special responsibility to lead the people in response to judgment.
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