Joel 2:3
A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yea, and none has escaped them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.
Cross References
Genesis 2:8And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Exodus 10:5And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that no man is able to see the ground. And they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of
Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
Isaiah 33:4And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. As locusts leap, men shall leap upon it.
Jeremiah 5:17And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat. They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds. They shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees. They shall beat down thy fortified cities,
Joel 1:4That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye 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 cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →