Joel 2:3

An eish devoureth before them; 1 and behind them a flame burneth; 1 ha'aretz is as the Gan Eden before them, 1 and behind them a desolate midbar; 1 yea, and nothing shall escape them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

In Context

2A day of choshech and of gloominess, 1 a day of anan (cloud) and of thick darkness, 1 as the shachar (dawn) spread upon the mountains; 1 an am rav (great people, army) and strong; 1 there hath not been ever the like, 1 neither shall be any more after it, 1 even to the years of dor v'dor. 1

4The appearance of them is as the appearance of susim; 1 and as horsemen, so shall they run. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.

Exodus 10:5And they shall cover the face of ha'aretz, that one cannot be able to see ha'aretz; and they shall devour the remnant of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the barad, and shall eat kol haetz which groweth for you out of the sadeh;

Psalms 50:3Eloheinu shall come, and shall not keep silent; 1 an eish shall devour before Him, 1 and it shall be tempestuous me'od round about Him. 1

Isaiah 33:4And your shalal (booty, plunder, gain) shall be gathered 1 like the gathering of the locusts; 1 as the swarm of grasshoppers 1 shall men pounce upon them. 1

Jeremiah 5:17And they shall devour thine katzir (harvest), and thy lechem, 1 which thy banim and thy banot should eat; 1 they shall devour thy tzon and thine bakar; 1 they shall eat up thy gefen and thy te'enah (fig tree); 1 they shall impoverish thy fortified cities, 1 wherein thou trustedst, with the cherev.

Joel 1:4That which the locust swarm hath left 1 hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; 1 and that which the arbeh hath left 1 hath the crawling locust eaten; 1 and that which the crawling locust hath left 1 hath the other locust eaten. 1

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 →

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