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Blow 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 comes, for it is close at hand:
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Verse 1. Blow. The prophets often ordered, to signify what will take place. Worthington.—The people were gathered by the sound of trumpets. The danger from the locusts was imminent; and all are exhorted to avert it, by praying in the temple, and so forth—Tremble at the sound. Amos 3:6. Calmet.—Extemplò turbati. Virgil, Æneid viii.—Lord. That is, the time when he will execute justice on sinners, ( Challoner.) and suffer affliction to fall upon them. Worthington. Calmet. 1:15.
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