<p class="poetry">Blow the trumpet<n id="1" /> in Zion.p> <p class="poetry">Announce a holy fast;p> <p class="poetry">proclaim a sacred assembly!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Proclaim this among the nations:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Prepare for a holy war!p> <p class="poetry">Call out the warriors!p> <p class="poetry">Let all these fighting men approach and attack!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">It will so happen thatp> <p class="poetry">everyone who calls on the name of the <sc>Lordsc> will be delivered.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> there will be those who survive,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">just as the <sc>Lordsc> has promised;p> <p class="poetry">the remnant<n id="4" /> will be those whom the <sc>Lordsc> will call.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Announce a holy fast;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">proclaim a sacred assembly.p> <p class="poetry">Gather the elders and<n id="2" /> all the inhabitants of the landp> <p class="poetry">to the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> your God,p> <p class="poetry">and cry out to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">To you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I call out for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for fire<n id="2" /> has burned up<n id="3" /> the grassy pastures,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">flames have razed<n id="5" /> all the trees in the fields.p>