Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
God sends judgment to bring you to repentance and back to Himself. Rend your heart, not your garments alone; let sorrow for sin spring from within, not merely from outward show. Every person must mourn for their own sin, and then all shall be found among God's mourners.
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Commenting on Joel 2:12-17
The prophet demands total participation: old men, children at the breast, bridegroom and bride all abandon their delight to join the penitential worship. No age escapes sin; no rank is exempt from the judgment. The very presence of infants carried to prayer witnesses the universal guilt of the nation.
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Commenting on Joel 2:15-17
Blow the trumpet in Zion,.... For the calling of the people together to religious duties, which was one use of the silver trumpets made for and blows by the priests, Num 10:2; sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; See Gill on Joe 1:14.