John Trapp on Joel 3:11

Verſe 11. Aſſemble your ſelves, and come all ye heathen] Come and fetch your bane, whereof, by your forwardneſſe to come uncalled, ye may ſeem to be ambitious: Judgments need not go to find you out: for you aſſociate your ſelves that ye may be broken in peeces Iſa. 8.9. as at Armageddon Rev. 16.16. Come on therefore, ſith you will needes be ſo mad, and take what befalles you. Who would ſet the briars and thorncs againſt me in battel? I would go thorough them, I would burn them together, Eſay 27.4. See Zech. 14.2, 3. (with the Notes) Ezech. 38.4,Gnuſhu pro chuſhu. 16, 17. &c. Rev. 19.17, 18. The word here Engliſhed Aſſemble, is by Iarchi rendred Feſtinate Haſten: by others conglobamini cluſter together, that ye may be the ſooner cut off, that the mouth of Gods ſword may have its full bit, that he may make an utter end, and your affliction may not riſe up the ſecond time. Nah. 19.

thither cauſe thy mighty ones to come down] i. e. Vel Angelos vel alios ſaith Mercer, either thine Angels (called Gods mighties Pſal. 103.20. Eſay. 10.34. Pſal. 68.17. where theſe Mighty Ones are ſaid to make Sion as dreadfull to all her enemies, as thoſe Angels made Sinai at the delivery of the law) or other thine officers and executioners, that by thy command they may fall on, and deſtroy theſe Heathen-armies, ſee verſe. 13. the anſwer to this prayer of the Prophet and the power of prayers which Luther fitly calleth bombardas & inſtrumenta bellica Chriſtianorum the great ordnance and warlike weapons of Chriſtians.