Joel 1:14

“When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

And Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” And they summoned them.

So Judah gathered together to seek help from Yahweh; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.

“Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

How long is the land to mourn And the plants of every field to dry up? Because of the evil of those who inhabit it, Animals and birds have been swept away, Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem called for a fast before Yahweh.

Hear this, O elders, And give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?

Blow a trumpet in Zion, Set apart a fast as holy, call for a solemn assembly,

And the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Gather yourselves together, indeed, gather, O nation without shame,