Joel 2:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

Psalm 50:3

Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

Exodus 10:15

For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.

Isaiah 14:17

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

Isaiah 33:4

And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Isaiah 9:18

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

Amos 7:4

This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

Habakkuk 1:6

For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

Zechariah 7:14

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.