14 Sanctify a time of fasting.+ Call together a solemn assembly.+ Gather together [the] older men, all the inhabitants of the land,* to the house of Jehovah YOUR God,+ and cry to Jehovah for aid.+

16 Gather [the] people together. Sanctify* a congregation.+ Collect [the] old men together. Gather children and those sucking the breasts together.+ Let [the] bridegroom go forth from his interior room, and [the] bride from her nuptial chamber.