CONTENTS
The same subject is continued in this Chapter as in the former, the dreadful day of the Lord's judgments is solemnly described. But the close of the Chapter comes in with the sweetest promises of blessing in the outpouring of the Spirit.
The Chapter opens with a solemn call to sound the trumpet in Zion. This was the office of the priests, to blow the trumpet, of what kind soever it was, whether the war trumpet, or the trumpet for the calling of assemblies, or the jubilee trumpet, or the new moon, or fast trumpet. See Numbers 10:1; Leviticus 25:9, etc. But certainly, the great leading object of the whole was with an eye to the gospel, as the close of this Chapter manifests. And nothing can be more beautiful in relation to the joyful sound, than the figure of a trumpet, when the true ministers of Jesus loudly proclaim in his Zion, redemption by his blood, and the day of the Lord Jesus at hand. Isaiah 27:13; Isaiah 27:13.