Joel 2:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They roar over mountains like noisy chariots, or a mighty army ready for battle. They are a forest fire that feasts on straw.

Cross References

Job 39:20

Did you make them able to jump like grasshoppers or to frighten people with their snorting?

Exodus 5:12

The slaves went all over Egypt, looking for straw.

Isaiah 30:30

The LORD will get furious. His fearsome voice will be heard, his arm will be seen ready to strike, and his anger will be like a destructive fire, followed by thunderstorms and hailstones.

Isaiah 5:24

You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the teaching of the holy LORD God All-Powerful of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.

Jeremiah 50:42

Bows and arrows and swords are in their hands. The soldiers are cruel and show no pity. The hoofbeats of their horses echo like ocean waves crashing against the shore. The army has lined up for battle and is coming to attack you, people of Babylonia!

Matthew 3:12

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.

Revelation 9:9

On their chests they wore armour made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.