Joel 2:15
New International Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

New Living Translation
Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.

English Standard Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;

Berean Standard Bible
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

King James Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

New King James Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;

New American Standard Bible
Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

NASB 1995
Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

NASB 1977
Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

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

Amplified Bible
Blow a trumpet in Zion [warning of impending judgment], Dedicate a fast [as a day of restraint and humility], call a solemn assembly.

Christian Standard Bible
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion! Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Blow the horn in Zion! Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly.

American Standard Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Sound the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, call the assembly

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service:

Contemporary English Version
Sound the trumpet on Zion! Call the people together. Show your sorrow by going without food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

English Revised Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Blow the ram's horn in Zion. Schedule a time to fast. Call for an assembly.

Good News Translation
Blow the trumpet on Mount Zion; give orders for a fast and call an assembly!

International Standard Version
"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Dedicate a fast and call for a solemn assembly!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Blow the horn in Zion, Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

Literal Standard Version
Blow a horn in Zion, | Sanctify a fast—proclaim a restraint.

Majority Standard Bible
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

New American Bible
Blow the horn in Zion! Proclaim a fast, call an assembly!

NET Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

New Revised Standard Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly;

New Heart English Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

World English Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

Young's Literal Translation
Blow ye a trumpet in Zion, Sanctify a fast -- proclaim a restraint.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Return with All Your Heart
14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God. 15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly. 16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.…

Cross References
Numbers 10:3
When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu commanded, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they announced it.

Jeremiah 36:9
Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

Joel 1:14
Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Joel 2:1
Blow the ram's horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near--


Treasury of Scripture

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Blow.

Joel 2:1
Blow 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;

Numbers 10:3
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

sanctify.

Joel 1:14
Sanctify 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,

1 Kings 21:9,12
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: …

2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

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Joel 2
1. He shows unto Zion the terribleness of God's judgment.
12. He exhorts to repentance;
15. prescribes a fast;
18. promises a blessing thereon.
21. He comforts Zion with present,
28. and future blessings.














(15, 16) Sanctify a fast.--The prophet renews, therefore, his summons to the priests to proclaim a day of humiliation, on which all, without distinction of age or circumstances, are to be required to present themselves before the Lord. There was no room for the plea, "I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come."

Verses 15-17. - "The harsh blast of the consecrated ram's horn called an assembly for an extraordinary fast. Not a soul was to be absent. Like the fiery cross, it convened old and young, men and women, mothers with infants at their breasts, the bridegroom and the bride on their bridal day. All were there stretched in front of the altar. The altar itself presented the dreariest of all sights - a hearth without its sacred fire, a table spread without its sacred feast. The priestly caste, instead of gathering as usual upon its steps and its platform, were driven, as it were, to the further space; they turned their backs to the dead altar, and lay prostrate, gazing towards the Invisible Presence within the sanctuary. Instead of the hymns and music which, since the time of David, had entered into their prayers, there was nothing heard but the passionate sobs and the loud dissonant howls such as only an Eastern hierarchy could utter. Instead of the mass of white mantles which they usually presented, they were wrapt in black goat's-hair sackcloth, twisted round them, not with the brilliant sashes of the priestly attire, but with a rough girdle of the same texture, which they never unbound night or day. What they wore of their common dress was rent asunder or cast off. With bare breasts they waved their black drapery towards the temple, and shrieked aloud, 'Spare thy people, O Lord!'" Such is Dean Stanley's vivid picture of the circumstances and scene described by the prophet in the above verses. A scene exceedingly similar occurs in the commencement of the 'OEdipus Tyrannus' of Sophocles -

"Why sit ye here, my children, younger brood
Of Cadmus famed of old, in solemn state,
Your bands thus wreathed with the suppliants' boughs?
And all the city reeks with incense,

And all re-echoes with your hymns and groans;
And I, my children, counting it unmeet
To hear report from others, I have come
Myself, whom all name OEdipus the Great."


Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Blow
תִּקְע֥וּ (tiq·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 8628: To clatter, slap, clang, to drive, to become bondsman

the trumpet
שׁוֹפָ֖ר (šō·w·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7782: A cornet, curved horn

in Zion,
בְּצִיּ֑וֹן (bə·ṣî·yō·wn)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6726: Zion -- a mountain in Jerusalem, also a name for Jerusalem

consecrate
קַדְּשׁוּ־ (qad·də·šū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

a fast,
צ֖וֹם (ṣō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6685: Fasting, a fast

proclaim
קִרְא֥וּ (qir·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

a sacred assembly.
עֲצָרָֽה׃ (‘ă·ṣā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6116: An assembly, on a, festival, holiday


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