Joel 2:3

Christian Standard Bible

A fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame blazes. The land in front of them is like the garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland; there is no escape from them.

Cross References

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the  Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

Genesis 2:8

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,  and there he placed the man he had formed.

Zechariah 7:14

I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”

Exodus 10:15

They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left  to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.

Amos 7:4

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire.  It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will consume your harvest and your food. They will consume your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vines and your fig trees. With the sword they will destroy your fortified cities  in which you trust.

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain  of the Jordan  as far as Zoar  was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden  and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The land is scorched by the wrath of the  Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.

Isaiah 14:17

who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home? ”

Isaiah 15:6

The Waters of Nimrim  are desolate; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.

Ezekiel 36:35

They will say, “This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.  The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and demolished are now fortified and inhabited.”

Isaiah 33:4

Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

Habakkuk 1:6

Look! I am raising up  the Chaldeans, that bitter,  impetuous nation that marches across the earth’s open spaces to seize territories not its own.