14 I am the Lord your God.Perhaps I will change my mindand treat you with mercy.Then you will be blessedwith enough grain and winefor offering sacrifices to me.
15 Sound the trumpet on Zion!Call the people together.Show your sorrowby going without food.
16 Make sure that everyoneis fit to worship me.Bring adults, children, babies,and even bring newlywedsfrom their festivities.
17 Tell my servants, the priests,to cry inside the templeand to offer this prayernear the altar:“Save your people, Lord God!Don't let foreign nationsmake jokes about us.Don't let them laugh and ask,‘Where is your God?’ ”
18 The Lord was deeply concernedabout his landand had pity on his people.
19 In answer to their prayershe said,“I will give you enough grain,wine, and olive oilto satisfy your needs.No longer will I let yoube insulted by the nations.
20 An army attacked from the north,but I will chase itinto a scorching desert.There it will rot and stinkfrom the Dead Seato the Mediterranean.”The Lord works wonders