Joel 2:15

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?'"

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, proclayme a fast, call an assemblye, sanctifie the congregation.

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,

Contextual Overview

¹² But there's also this, it's not too late— God 's personal Message!— "Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!" ¹³Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God , your God. And here's why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. Who knows? Maybe he'll do it now, maybe he'll turn around and show pity. Maybe, when all's said and done, there'll be blessings full and robust for your God ! ¹⁵Blow 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?'"

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
By the seventh day God had finished his work. On the seventh day he rested from all his work. God blessed the seventh day. He made it a Holy Day Because on that day he rested from his work, all the creating God had done. This is the story of how it all started, of Heaven and Earth when they were created.

Genesis 2:8
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.

Ephesians 4:28
Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can't work.

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.