⁹ The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?