Joel 1:14

Fasting Prayer Repentance Fellowship and the church

¹² The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

¹³ Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

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.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁶ Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: 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,
WEB: 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 to the LORD.
ASV: Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
DARBY: Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
BLB: Consecrate a fast, call a solemn assembly! Gather the elders [and] all those dwelling in the land [to] the house of YHWH your⁺ God, and cry out to YHWH.

ÅB: Tillys en hellig faste, utrop en festforsamling, samle de eldste, ja alle som bor i landet, til Herrens, deres Guds hus og rop til Herren!
OTB: Utlys en hellig faste;
kall sammen en hellig forsamling.
Samle de eldste
og alle som bor i landet
til Herrens, deres Guds, hus,
og rop til Herren.
B1930: Tillys en hellig faste, utrop en festforsamling, samle de eldste, ja alle som bor i landet, til Herrens, eders Guds hus og rop til Herren!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Joel 2:15–16
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
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2 Chronicles 20:3–4
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
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Jonah 3:8
Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
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2 Chronicles 20:13
Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 29:10–11
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
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Leviticus 23:36
For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
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Nehemiah 9:2–3
Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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Nehemiah 8:18
Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
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