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15 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;(A)

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31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)

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When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.(A)

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Invasion and Desolation of Judah Threatened

Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:

Blow the trumpet through the land;
    shout aloud[a] and say,
“Gather together, and let us go
    into the fortified cities!”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.5 Or shout, take your weapons: Heb shout, fill (your hand)

15 Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

The Great Day of the Lord

14 The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    the warrior cries aloud there.(A)
15 That day will be a day of wrath,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ruin and devastation,
    a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness,(B)
16     a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

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