Joel 2:3

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Fire blazes in front of them, behind them flames are burning. In front of them the land looks like the Garden of Eden, behind them is a desert of total desolation: not a single survivor remains.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked over the whole Jordan valley towards Zoar, and saw that it was well-watered, looking like the Garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 2:8

The Lord planted a garden in Eden, in the east. There he put the man Adam he had created.

Psalm 50:3

Our God arrives, and does not stay quiet. Fire flames before him, burning everything up; a violent storm rages around him.

Psalm 97:3

Flames proceed him, burning up his enemies on every side.

Exodus 10:15

They covered the ground until it looked black, and they ate up all the plants in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had been left by the hail. Not a single green leaf was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

There will be so many of them that they'll cover the ground so no one can see it. They will eat whatever crops were left by the hail, as well as every tree growing in your fields.

Isaiah 14:17

Is this the one who turned the world into a desert, destroyed cities, and never let his prisoners return home?’

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim have all dried up. The grass is withered, all the vegetation has disappeared—nothing green is left.

Isaiah 33:4

You plunder defeated enemy armies like caterpillars eating up plants; like an attack of swarming locusts.

Isaiah 51:3

The Lord will care for Zion and feel sorry about all her ruined places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert areas like the garden of the Lord. People there will have joy and happiness, giving thanks and singing sweet songs.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness blazes like a fire, burning up brambles and thorns, setting the forest on fire, sending a column of smoke swirling upwards.

Isaiah 9:19

The anger of the Lord Almighty burns the land. People are like fuel for the fire, and nobody tries to help anyone else.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will consume your harvest and your food; they will destroy your sons and your daughters; they will eat your flocks and your herds; they will feed on your vines and your fig trees. They will attack and will destroy the fortified towns that you have so much confidence in.

Ezekiel 36:35

Then they will say, ‘This deserted land is now like the garden of Eden. The towns that were demolished, abandoned, and destroyed have been restored and strengthened, and people are living in them.’

Amos 7:4

This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw that the Lord God was calling for a judgment of fire. The fire burned up the depths of the sea and destroyed the farmland.

Habakkuk 1:6

Watch! I am raising up the Babylonians, a cruel and brutal people who will march across the world to seize other lands.

Zechariah 7:14

With the winds of a storm I scattered them among the nations where they lived as foreigners. The land they left became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned the Promised Land into a desert.