Joel 2:1
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,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.
Numbers 10:5But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.
Ezra 9:3And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.
Isaiah 13:6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.
Isaiah 66:2My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:1
In this chapter we have, I. A further description of that terrible desolation which should be made in the land of Judah by the locusts and caterpillars, ver. 1-11 . II. A serious call to the people, when they are under this sore judgment, to return and repent, to fast and pray, and to seek unto God for mercy, with directions how to do this aright, ver. 12-17 . III. A promise that, upon their repentance, God would remove the judgment, would repair the breaches made upon them by it, and restore unto them plenty of… Read the whole commentary →