Joel 2:3

A Conservative Version

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. Yea, and none has escaped them.

Cross References

Isaiah 51:3

For LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Genesis 2:8

And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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 no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole ground, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there remained not any green thing, either tree nor herb

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that no man is able to see the ground. And they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of

Amos 7:4

Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat. They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds. They shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees. They shall beat down thy fortified cities,

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou go to Zoar.

Psalm 97:3

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of LORD of hosts is the land burnt up, and the people are as the fuel of fire; no man spares his brother.

Isaiah 14:17

who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away. The tender grass fails. There is no green thing.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. As locusts leap, men shall leap upon it.

Habakkuk 1:6

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.