Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Parallel translations
- WEB Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
- BSB Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
- NKJV Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;
- NASB Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,
- NLT Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.
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Quick answer
Joel again commands the trumpet blown in Zion to summon a fast and solemn assembly. The warning trumpet now becomes a call to gathered repentance.
Overview
Echoing the alarm of verse 1, the trumpet now calls the people to consecrate a fast and convene a sacred assembly. The same instrument that warned of judgment now gathers the community to seek God. This shift shows that the proper response to the looming day of Yahweh is corporate, earnest turning to the Lord in repentance and prayer.
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Cross-references · 7
- Joel 1:14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
- Joel 2:1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
- 1 Kgs 21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- Num 10:3And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 1 Kgs 21:9And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
- 2 Kgs 10:20And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
- Jer 36:9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
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