<p class="poetry">Get dressed<n id="1" /> and lament, you priests!p> <p class="poetry">Wail, you who minister at the altar!p> <p class="poetry">Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God,p> <p class="poetry">because no one brings grain offerings or drink offeringsp> <p class="poetry">to the temple of your God anymore.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">No one brings grain offerings or drink offeringsp> <p class="poetry">to the temple<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> anymore.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So the priests, those who serve the <sc>Lord,sc> are in mourning.p>

<p class="poetry">You will be called, &#8216;the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s priests,p> <p class="poetry">servants of our God.&#8217;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You will enjoy<n id="2" /> the wealth of nationsp> <p class="poetry">and boast about<n id="3" /> the riches you receive from them.<n id="4" />p>

could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.<n id="1" />

It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the <sc>Lordsc> to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.<n id="1" />

An area eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> in length and three and one-third miles<n id="2" /> in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities<n id="3" /> in which they will live.p>

Then he said to me, &#8220;These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.&#8221;p>

I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let the priests, those who serve the <sc>Lordsc>, weepp> <p class="poetry">from the vestibule all the way back to the altar.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them say, &#8220;Have pity, O <sc>Lordsc>, on your people;p> <p class="poetry">please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked,p> <p class="poetry">to become a proverb<n id="2" /> among the nations.p> <p class="poetry">Why should it be said<n id="3" /> among the peoples,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;p>