Joel 2:15

Bishop's Bible

Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, proclayme a fast, call an assemblye, sanctifie the congregation.

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

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

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

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

New Century Version
Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem; call for a day when everyone fasts. Tell everyone to stop work.

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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blowe the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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,

Berean Standard Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
"Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly."

Darby Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly;

Easy-to-Read Version
Blow the trumpet at Zion. Call for a special meeting. Call for a special time of fasting.

George Lamsa Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

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

Lexham English Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly;

Literal Translation
Blow a ram's horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

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

Bible in Basic English
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

King James Version (1611)
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service:

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Synge ye with a trumpe in Sion, halewe ye fastyng, clepe ye cumpany; gadere ye togidere the puple, halewe ye the chirche,

Update Bible Version
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:

New English Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

New King James Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a 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.

New Life Bible
Blow a horn in Zion. Set apart a time when no food will be eaten. Call together a holy meeting.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blow ye a horn, in Zion, - hallow a fast, call a solemn assembly:

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

Revised Standard Version
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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blowe out with the tropet in Sion, proclame a fastynge, call the congregacion,

THE MESSAGE
Blow the ram's horn trumpet in Zion! Declare a day of repentance, a holy fast day. Call a public meeting. Get everyone there. Consecrate the congregation. Make sure the elders come, but bring in the children, too, even the nursing babies, Even men and women on their honeymoon— interrupt them and get them there. Between Sanctuary entrance and altar, let the priests, God 's servants, weep tears of repentance. Let them intercede: "Have mercy, God , on your people! Don't abandon your heritage to contempt. Don't let the pagans take over and rule them and sneer, ‘And so where is this God of theirs?'"

Contextual Overview

¹² But nowe saith ye Lord, turne you vnto me with all your heartes, with fasting, with weepyng, and with mournyng. ¹³ And rent your heartes and not your garmentes, & turne you vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gratious & mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great goodnesse, and he wyll repent him of the euyll. ¹⁴ Who knoweth whether the Lorde wyll returne and take compassion, and wyll leaue behinde him a blessing, [euen] meate offeryng and drynke offeryng vnto the Lorde your God? ¹⁵ Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, proclayme a fast, call an assemblye, sanctifie the congregation. ¹⁶ Gather the people, gather the elders, assemble the children & suckyng babes: let the bridegrome come foorth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. ¹⁷ Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche & the aulter, and let them say, Spare thy people O Lord, and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche, that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them: Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen, Where is their God?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blow: Joel 2:1, Numbers 10:3

sanctify: Joel 1:14, 1 Kings 21:9, 1 Kings 21:12, 2 Kings 10:20, Jeremiah 36:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:2 - proclaim Leviticus 23:36 - solemn 1 Kings 8:35 - confess 1 Chronicles 15:24 - the priests 2 Chronicles 6:26 - if they pray Nehemiah 9:1 - children Isaiah 1:13 - the new Jeremiah 12:7 - have forsaken Hosea 5:8 - Blow Hosea 8:1 - the trumpet Jonah 3:7 - caused

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.

Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?

Psalms 128:2
For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and [all] shall go well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28
Let hym that stole, steale no more: but let hym rather labour, workyng with his handes the thyng whiche is good, that he may geue vnto hym that needeth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blow the trumpet in Zion,.... For the calling of the people together to religious duties, which was one use of the silver trumpets made for and blows by the priests, Numbers 10:2;

sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; Numbers 10:2- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before, he had, in these same words Joel 2:1; Joel 1:14, called to repentance, because the Day of the Lord was coming, was near, “a day of darkness,” etc. Now , because God is “gracious and merciful, slow to anger and plenteous in goodness,” he agains exhorts, “Blow ye the trumpet;” only the call is more detailed, that every sex and age should form one band of suppliants to the mercy of God. : “Most full abolition of sins is then obtained, when one prayer and one confession issueth from the whole Church. For since the Lord promiseth to the pious agreement of two or three, that He will grant whatever is so asked, what shall be denied to a people of many thousands, fulfilling together one observance, and supplicating in harmony through One Spirit?” “We come together,” says Tertullian of Christian worship, “in a meeting and congregation as before God, as though we would in one body sue Him by our prayers. This violence is pleasing to God.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Blow the trumpet — Let no time be lost, let the alarm be sounded.