Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Holman Bible
Announce a sacred fast;
proclaim an assembly.
International Standard Version
"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Dedicate a fast and call for a solemn assembly!
American Standard Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
Amplified
Blow a trumpet in Zion [warning of impending judgment],
Dedicate a fast [as a day of restraint and humility], 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:
Darby Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly;
Julia Smith Translation
Clang ye the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast, call a restraining.
King James 2000
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Blow [the] trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly;
Modern King James verseion
Blow a trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn gathering.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Blow a trumpet in Zion, proclaim fasting and call a congregation.
NET Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!
New Heart English Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
The Emphasized Bible
Blow ye a horn, in Zion, - hallow a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Blow ye a trumpet in Zion, Sanctify a fast -- proclaim a restraint.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Repentance
14 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering to LORD your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. 16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Phrases
Cross References
Joel 1:14
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD.
Numbers 10:3
And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to thee at the door of the tent of meeting.
2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
Jeremiah 36:9
Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before
Joel 2:1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of LORD comes, for it is near at hand,
1 Kings 21:9
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.