1Blow 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;
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But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law (Deut. 28:42), The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume , which was one of those diseases of Egypt that God would bring upon them, Deut. 28:60. I. Here is the war proclaimed (Joel 2:1): Blow the trumpet in Zion , either to call the invading army together, and then…
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