Joel 2:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap–like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a mighty people set in battle array. [Rev. 9:7, 9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Common English Bible

⁵ like the rumbling of chariots. They leap on the mountaintops— like the crackling of a fire’s flame, devouring the stubble; like a powerful army ready for battle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Like the sound of a four-horse chariot, they will leap over the tops of the mountains. Like the sound of a burning flame devouring stubble, they are as a strong people prepared for battle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.

Joel 2:5 Cross References

Job 39:20

Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

Exodus 5:12

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

Isaiah 30:30

And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.

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.

Jeremiah 50:42

They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride upon horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Revelation 9:9

they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.