Joel 2:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of his army: for his armies are exceeding great, for they are strong and execute his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who can stand it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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; yes, and none has escaped [the ravages of the devouring hordes].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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.

Common English Bible

³ In front of them a fire consumes; and behind them a flame burns. Land ahead of them is like Eden’s garden, but they leave behind them a barren wasteland; nothing escapes them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Before their face is a devouring fire, and behind them is a burning flame. The land before them is like a lush garden, and behind them is a desolate desert, and there is no one who can escape them.

Joel 2:3 Cross References

Isaiah 51:3

1 And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Zechariah 7:14

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in justice.

Exodus 10:15

8 And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the Lord.

Exodus 10:5

And they called back Moses and Aaron to Pharao: and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?

Amos 7:4

2 And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

Jeremiah 5:17

5 Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Psalm 50:3

0 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

Genesis 13:10

0 And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Psalm 97:3

0 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

Isaiah 9:18

Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

Isaiah 9:19

I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 14:17

5 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.

Isaiah 15:6

And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.

Ezekiel 36:35

Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.

Isaiah 33:4

2 And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

Habakkuk 1:6

4 And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.