Joel 2:5
Leaping over the mountaintops, they make a noise like rumbling chariots, like [SIM] a mighty army that is preparing for a battle, or like [SIM] the roar of a fire that burns up stubble in a field.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4The locusts resemble horses, and they run like [SIM] war horses.
6When people see them coming, they become very pale and frightened.
Cross References
Job 39:20Are you the one who enabled them to leap forward like locusts? When they ◄snort/blow loudly through their noses►, they cause people to be afraid.
Isaiah 30:30And Yahweh will enable us to hear him speaking powerfully/majestically. He will show us that he [SYN] is very powerful. We will see him [SYN] smash his enemies. Being very angry, he will descend with a big rainstorm and thunder and hail to punish them.
Nahum 3:2But now listen to the enemy soldiers coming to attack Nineveh; listen to them cracking their whips, and listen to the rattle of their chariot wheels! Listen to their galloping horses and their chariots as they bounce along!
Revelation 9:9They wore metal breastplates. When they were flying, their wings made a noise like the roar when many horses pull chariots as they are rushing into battle.
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 →