Joel 1:14

New English Translation

Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:20

Then Jehu ordered, “Make arrangements for a celebration for Baal.” So they announced it.

2 Chronicles 20:13

All the men of Judah were standing before the Lord, along with their infants, wives, and children.

Nehemiah 8:18

Ezra read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly as was required.

Esther 4:16

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”

Jeremiah 14:2

“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:9

All the people living in Jerusalem and all the people who came into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah came to observe a fast before the Lord. The fast took place in the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah.

Joel 1:2

Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

Leviticus 23:36

For seven days you must present a gift to the Lord. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.

Jonah 3:5

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Jonah 3:8

Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.

Zephaniah 2:1

Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,