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Joel 2:15

Zion
FastingFellowship and the church

13 So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

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

16 Gather 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.

17 Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
KJV
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
WEB
Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
ASV
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
DARBY
Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly;
BLB
Blow the shofar in Zion. Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
ÅB
Støt i basun på Sion, tillys en hellig faste, utrop en festforsamling!
OTB
Blås i trompeten på Sion,
hellige en faste,
kall sammen en hellig forsamling.
B1930
Støt i basun på Sion, tillys en hellig faste, utrop en festforsamling!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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.

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  • 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—

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  • Numbers 10:3

    When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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  • 1 Kings 21:12

    They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

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  • 1 Kings 21:9

    In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

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  • 2 Kings 10:20

    And Jehu commanded, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they announced it.

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  • 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.

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