Joel 1:14
Good News Translation
Give orders for a fast; call an assembly! Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah into the Temple of the LORD your God and cry out to him!

New Revised Standard Version
Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Tell the leaders and people to come together at the temple. Order them to go without eating and to pray sincerely.

New American Bible
Proclaim a holy fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, To the house of the LORD, your God, and cry out to the LORD!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Sanctify.

Joel 2:15,16 Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, . . .

2 Chronicles 20:3,4 And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda. . . .

solemn assembly.

Leviticus 23:36 The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.

Nehemiah 8:18 And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.

the elders.

Deuteronomy 29:10,11 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel, . . .

2 Chronicles 20:13 And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.

Nehemiah 9:2,3 And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. . . .

cry.

Jonah 3:8 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.

Context
A Call to Repentance
13Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God. 14Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:36
The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.

2 Kings 10:20
And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,

2 Chronicles 20:4
And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.

Esther 4:16
Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.

Jeremiah 36:9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were come together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.

Joel 1:2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

Joel 2:16
Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.

Jonah 3:5
And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

Jonah 3:8
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.

Zephaniah 2:1
Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved:

Joel 1:13
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