Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Blow ye a horn, in Zion, - hallow 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!
A Conservative Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call 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.
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
Interlinear
Qadash
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Repentance
14 Who knoweth, he may turn and grieve, - and leave behind him, a blessing, a meal-offering and a drink-offering, to Yahweh your God? 15 Blow ye a horn, in Zion, - hallow a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, hallow a convocation, collect the elders, gather the children, and the sucklings of the breasts, - let the bridegroom, come forth, from his chamber, and the bride from her bower:
Phrases
Cross References
Joel 1:14
Hallow ye a fast, Call a solemn assembly, Gather, O elders, all the inhabitants of the land, unto the house of Yahweh your God, - and make ye outcry unto Yahweh.
Numbers 10:3
As soon as they blow therewith, so soon hall all the assembly assemble themselves unto thee, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting.
2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu said - Hallow ye a solemn festival unto Baal. And they made proclamation.
Jeremiah 36:9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah in the ninth month, that all the people of Jerusalem, and all the people who were coming in out of the cities of Judah into Jerusalem, had proclaimed a fast before Yahweh;
Joel 2:1
Blow ye a horn in Zion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land, tremble, - for coming is the day of Yahweh, for it is near! -
1 Kings 21:9
Now she wrote in the letters, saying, - Proclaim ye a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people;
1 Kings 21:12
they proclaimed a fast, - and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people.