Yuēĕrshū 1:14

14 Nǐmen yào fēn déng jìnshí de rìzi , xuāngào yán sù huì , zhāo jù zhǎnglǎo , hé guó zhōng de yīqiè jūmín , dào Yēhéhuá nǐmen shén de diàn , xiàng Yēhéhuá āi qiú .

Yuēĕrshū 1:14 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:14

Sanctify yea a fast
This is spoken to the priests, whose business it was to appoint a fast, as the Targum renders it; or to set apart a time for such religious service, as the word signifies; and to keep it holy themselves, and see that it was so kept by others: Kimchi interprets it, prepare the people for a fast; give them notice of it, that they may be prepared for it: call a solemn assembly;
of all the people of the land later mentioned: or, "proclaim a restraint" ^F23; a time of ceasing, as a fast day should be from all servile work, that attendance may be given to the duties of it, prayer and humiliation: gather the elders:
meaning not those in age, but in office: [and] all the inhabitants of the land;
not the magistrates only, though first and principally, as examples, who had been deeply concerned in guilt; but the common people also, even all of them: [into] the house of the Lord your God;
the temple, the court of the Israelites, where they were to go and supplicate the Lord, when such a calamity as this of locusts and caterpillars were upon them; and where they might hope the Lord would hear them, and remove his judgments from them, ( 1 Kings 8:37 ) ; and cry unto the Lord;
in prayer, with vehemence and earnestness of soul.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (hrue warq) "vocate retentionem", Montanus; "proclamate diem interdicti", Junius & Tremellius, Heb. "interdictum", Piscator; "edicite coetum cum cessatione", Cocceius.

Yuēĕrshū 1:14 In-Context

12 Pútàoshù kū gān , wúhuāguǒ shù shuāi cán . shíliu shù , zōng shù , píngguǒ shù , lián tiānyĕ yīqiè de shùmù , yĕ dōu kū gān . zhòngrén de xǐlè jǐn dōu xiāomiè .

13 Jìsī a , nǐmen dāng yào shù má bù tòngkū . cìhou jìtán de a , nǐmen yào āi hào . shìfèng wǒ shén de a , nǐmen yào lái pī shang má bù guō yè . yīnwei sù jì , hé diàn jì , cóng nǐmen shén de diàn zhōng duàn jué le .

14 Nǐmen yào fēn déng jìnshí de rìzi , xuāngào yán sù huì , zhāo jù zhǎnglǎo , hé guó zhōng de yīqiè jūmín , dào Yēhéhuá nǐmen shén de diàn , xiàng Yēhéhuá āi qiú .

15 Āi zāi , Yēhéhuá de rìzi línjìn le . zhè rì lái dào , hǎoxiàng huǐmiè cóng quánnéng zhĕ lái dào .

16 Liángshi bú shì zaì wǒmen yǎnqián duàn jué le ma . huānxǐ kuaìlè bú shì cóng wǒmen shén de diàn zhōng zhǐxī le ma .