Joel 2:3

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“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. Yes, and no one has escaped them.”

— WEB

“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.”

— KJV

“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 none hath escaped them.”

— ASV

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Zechariah 7:14 "“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that…"
Psalms 50:3 "Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him."
Amos 7:4 "Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have de…"
Genesis 13:10 "Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomor…"
Ezekiel 31:8-9 "The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; n…"

Commentary

before . . . behind--that is, on every side (Ch1 19:10). fire . . . flame--destruction . . . desolation (Isa 10:17). as . . . Eden . . . wilderness--conversely (Isa 51:3; Eze 36:35).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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