Joel 2:1

Myles Coverdale Bible

Blowe out ye trompet in Sion, & crie vpo my holy hill, yt all soch as dwel in the londe, maye treble at it: for ye daie of the LORDE commeth, & is harde at honde:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Blow the horn in Zion;

Hebrew Names Version
Blow you the shofar in Tziyon, And sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the LORD comes, For it is close at hand:

King James Version
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 the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

English Standard Version
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,

New American Standard Bible
Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the LORD is coming; Indeed, it is near,

New Century Version
Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem; shout a warning on my holy mountain. Let all the people who live in the land shake with fear, because the Lord 's day of judging is coming; it is near.

Amplified Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion [warning of impending judgment], Sound an alarm on My holy mountain [Zion]! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble and shudder in fear, For the [judgment] day of the LORD is coming; It is close at hand,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blowe the trumpet in Zion, and shoute in mine holy mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the lande tremble: for the day of the Lorde is come: for it is at hand.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the LORD is coming; Surely it is near,

Legacy Standard Bible
Blow a trumpet in Zion,And make a loud shout on My holy mountain!Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,For the day of Yahweh is coming;Surely it is near,

Berean Standard Bible
Blow the trumpet 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; in fact, it is at hand-

Contemporary English Version
Sound the trumpet on Zion, the Lord 's sacred hill. Warn everyone to tremble! The judgment day of the Lord is coming soon.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain!" Let all living in the land tremble, for the Day of Adonai is coming! It's upon us! —

Darby Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;

Easy-to-Read Version
Blow the trumpet on Zion. Shout a warning on my holy mountain. Let all the people who live in the land shake with fear. The Lord 's special day is coming; it is near.

George Lamsa Translation
BLOW the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the LORD is come;

Good News Translation
Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm on Zion, God's sacred hill. Tremble, people of Judah! The day of the Lord is coming soon.

Lexham English Bible
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming —it is indeed near.

Literal Translation
Blow a ram's horn in Zion, and shout an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all those living in the land tremble. For the day of Jehovah approaches; it is near,

American Standard Version
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 Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Bible in Basic English
Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blow ye the horn in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is at hand;

King James Version (1611)
Blow yee the trumpet in Zion, & sound an alarme in my holy mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nie at hand;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, and showte in my holy hyll, let all the inhabitauntes of the earth tremble: for the day of the Lorde is come, for it is nye at hande.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;

English Revised Version
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 the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

World English Bible
Blow you the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of Yahweh comes, For it is close at hand:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Synge ye with a trumpe in Sion, yelle ye in myn hooli hil. Alle the dwelleris of erthe be disturblid; for the dai of the Lord cometh,

Update Bible Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is near at hand;

Webster's Bible Translation
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 the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;

New English Translation
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

New King James Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand:

New Living Translation
Sound the trumpet in Jerusalem! Raise the alarm on my holy mountain! Let everyone tremble in fear because the day of the Lord is upon us.

New Life Bible
Blow a horn in Zion! Give the sound of danger on My holy mountain! Let all the people of the land shake in fear, for the day of the Lord is coming. The day is near.

New Revised Standard
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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! -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand.

Revised Standard Version
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, it is near,

Young's Literal Translation
Blow ye a trumpet in Zion, And shout ye in My holy hill, Tremble do all inhabitants of the earth, For coming is the day of Jehovah, for [it is] near!

THE MESSAGE
Blow the ram's horn trumpet in Zion! Trumpet the alarm on my holy mountain! Shake the country up! God 's Judgment's on its way—the Day's almost here! A black day! A Doomsday! Clouds with no silver lining! Like dawn light moving over the mountains, a huge army is coming. There's never been anything like it and never will be again. Wildfire burns everything before this army and fire licks up everything in its wake. Before it arrives, the country is like the Garden of Eden. When it leaves, it is Death Valley. Nothing escapes unscathed.

Contextual Overview

¹ Blowe out ye trompet in Sion, & crie vpo my holy hill, yt all soch as dwel in the londe, maye treble at it: for ye daie of the LORDE commeth, & is harde at honde: ² a darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye, yee & a stormy daye, like as the mornynge spredeth out vpo the hilles: Namely, a great & mightie people: soch as haue not bene sens ye begynnynge, nether shal be after them for euermore. ³ Before him shal be a consumynge fyre, & behynde him a burnynge flame. The londe shal be as a garden of pleasure before him, but behinde him shal it be a very waist wildernesse, & there is no man, that shal escape him. ⁴ They are to loke vpon like bayrded horses, & runne like horse men. ⁵ They skyppe vp vpon ye hilles, as it were the sounde of charettes: as the flame of fyre that consumeth the strawe, and as a mightie people redy to the batell. ⁶ The folke shalbe afrayed of him, all faces shal be as blacke as a pot. ⁷ These shal rune like giauntes, & leape ouer the walles like men of warre. Euery ma in his goinge shal kepe his araie, & not go out of his Path. ⁸ There shal not one dryue another, but ech shal kepe his owne waye. They shal breake in at the wyndowes, & not be hurte: ⁹ They shal come into the cite, & runne vpon the walles: They shal clymme vp vpon the houses, & slyppe in at the wyndowes like a thefe. ¹⁰ The earth shal quake before him, yee the heauens shalbe moued: the Sonne & Moone shal be darckened, and the starres shal withdrawe their shyne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blow: Joel 2:15, Numbers 10:3, Numbers 10:8, Jeremiah 4:5, Hosea 8:1

trumpet: or, cornet, 1 Chronicles 15:28, Hosea 5:8

and sound: Numbers 10:5-7, Numbers 10:9, Ezekiel 33:3, Ezekiel 33:6, Amos 3:6, Zephaniah 1:16

in my: Joel 3:17, Psalms 87:1, Daniel 9:16, Daniel 9:20, Zephaniah 3:11, Zechariah 8:3

let: Ezra 9:3, Ezra 9:4, Psalms 119:120, Isaiah 66:2, Isaiah 66:5, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 16:7, Jeremiah 16:10, Daniel 6:26, Philippians 2:12

for the: Joel 1:15, Isaiah 2:12, Ezekiel 7:5-7, Ezekiel 7:10, Ezekiel 7:12, Ezekiel 12:23, Amos 8:2, Obadiah 1:15, Malachi 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, James 5:8, 1 Peter 4:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:15 - For they Numbers 10:7 - sound 1 Chronicles 15:24 - the priests Isaiah 13:4 - the Lord Jeremiah 46:10 - the day Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Ezekiel 30:3 - the day is Ezekiel 34:12 - in the cloudy Joel 3:14 - for Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is Zephaniah 1:7 - for the day Zephaniah 1:14 - great Acts 2:20 - great 2 Peter 3:10 - the day

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:

Genesis 1:10
And God called ye drye londe, Earth: and the gatheringe together of waters called he, ye See. And God sawe yt it was good.

Genesis 2:3
And blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it, because yt in it he rested from all his workes, which God created and made.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generacions of heaue and earth whan they were created, in the tyme whan the LORDE God made heauen and earth:

Genesis 2:5
before there was eny twygg vpon earth, and or euer there grew eny grene herbe vpon the felde. For the LORDE God had yet sent no rayne vpon ye earth, nether was there eny man to tylle the earth.

Genesis 2:8
The LORDE God also planted a garde of pleasure in Eden, towarde ye east, and set man therin whom he had made.

Genesis 2:11
The first is called Phison, which renneth aboute all the londe of Heuyla.

Genesis 2:13
The second water is called Gihon, which runneth aboute the whole londe of ye Morias.

Exodus 20:11
For in sixe dayes the LORDE made heauen and earth, and the see, and all that therin is, and rested vpon the seuenth daye: therfore the LORDE blessed the seuenth daye, & halowed it.

Exodus 31:17
An euerlastynge token is it betwixte me and the children of Israel. For in sixe dayes made the LORDE heaue & earth, but vpon ye seuenth daye he rested, and was refreshed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain,.... This is spoken to the priests, whose business it was to blow the trumpets for calling solemn assemblies to meet in Zion, the temple built there, called from thence the holy mountain of God. Here the trumpet is ordered to be blown with a broken quivering voice, a tarantantara, to give notice of approaching danger by the locusts, or those enemies signified by them, and to prepare for it, and return to God by repentance;

let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; at the judgments of God coming upon them, and the alarm of them:

for the day of the Lord cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand; the time fixed by him to punish a wicked people, and to pour out his wrath and vengeance on them; the day of his visitation, not in love, but in anger.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blow ye the trumpet - The trumpet was accustomed to sound in Zion, only for religious uses; to call together the congregations for holy meetings, to usher in the beginnings of their months and their solemn days with festival gladness. Now in Zion itself, the stronghold of the kingdom, the Holy City, the place which God chose to put His Name there, which He had promised to establish, the trumpet was to be used, only for sounds of alarm and fear. Alarm could not penetrate there, without having pervaded the whole land. With it, the whole human hope of Judah was gone.

Sound an alarm in My holy mountain - He repeats the warning in varied expressions, in order the more to impress people’s hearts and to stir them to repentance. Even “the holy mountain” of God was to echo with alarms; the holiness, once bestowed upon it, was to be no security against the judgments of God; yea, in it rather were those judgments to begin. So Peter saith, “The time is come, that judgment must begin at the house of God” 1 Peter 4:17. The alarm being blown in Zion, terror was to spread to all the inhabitants of the land, who were, in fear, to repent. The Church of Christ is foretold in prophecy under the names of “Zion” and of the holy “mountain.” It is the “stone cut out without hands, which became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth” Daniel 2:34-35. Of it, it is said, “Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob!” Isaiah 2:3. And Paul says, “ye are come unto mount Zion and unto the city of the living God” Hebrews 12:22. The words then are a rule for all times. The judgments predicted by Joel represent all judgments unto the end; the conduct, prescribed on their approach, is a pattern to the Church at all times. : “In this mountain we must wail, considering the failure of the faithful, in which, “iniquity abounding, charity waxeth cold.” For now (1450 a.d.) the state of the Church is so sunken, and you may see so great misery in her from the most evil conversation of many, that one who burns with zeal for God, and truly loveth his brethren, must say with Jeremiah, “Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach” Jeremiah 14:17.

Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble - ^o: “We should be troubled when we hear the words of God, rebuking, threatening, avenging, as Jeremiah saith, ‘my heart within me is broken, all my bones shake, because of the Lord and because of the words of His holiness’ Jeremiah 23:9. Good is the trouble which people, weighing their sins, are shaken with fear and trembling, and repent.”

For the Day of the Lord is at hand - “The Day of the Lord” is any day in which He avengeth sin, any day of Judgment, in the course of His Providence or at the end; the day of Jerusalem from the Chaldees or Romans, the day of antichrist, the day of general or particular judgment, of which James says, “The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Behold the Judge standeth before the door” James 5:8-9. : “Well is that called “the day of the Lord,” in that, by the divine appointment, it avengeth the wrongs done to the Lord through the disobedience of His people.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

The prophet sounds the alarm of a dreadful calamity, the

description of which is most terribly worked up, 1-11.

Exhortation to repentance, fasting, and prayer, that the Divine

judgments may be averted, 12-17.

God will in due time take vengeance on all the enemies of pure

and undefiled religion, 18-20.

Great prosperity of the Jews subsequent to their return from

the Babylonish captivity, 21-27.

Joel then makes an elegant transition to the outpouring of the

Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, 28-30;

for so these verses are explained by one of the twelve apostles

of the Lamb. See Acts 2:16-21.

Prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, which was

shortly to follow the opening of the Gospel dispensation, 31.

Promises of safety to the faithful and penitent; promises

afterwards remarkably fulfilled to the Christians in their

escape to Pella from the desolating sword of the Roman army,

32.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse Joel 2:1. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion — This verse also shows that the temple was still standing. All assemblies of the people were collected by the sound of the trumpet.

The day of the Lord cometh — This phrase generally means a day of judgment or punishment.