Joel 2:3-5

The Day of the Lord

3 p Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like q the garden of Eden before them,
but r behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.

4 s Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
 5 t As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of u a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
n like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.

  1. Cross References
    Joel 1:19 - 20
    To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 2:8 - 9
    And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
    Isaiah 51:3
    For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
  3. Cross References
    Zechariah 7:14
    "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
  4. Cross References
    Revelation 9:7
    In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces.
  5. Cross References
    Revelation 9:9
    They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
    Nahum 3:2
    The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:24
    Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
    Isaiah 47:14
    Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
    Obadiah 1:18
    The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
    Nahum 1:10
    For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
  7. Cross References
    Joel 2:2
    A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
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