Joel 2:3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

A fire destroys in front of them, and behind them a flame devours. 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

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley 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.

Genesis 2:8

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

Psalm 50:3

Our God is coming; He will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes Him, and a storm rages around Him.

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before Him and burns up His foes on every side.

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.

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.

Isaiah 33:4

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

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.

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 Hosts, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.

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. They will destroy with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Ezekiel 36:35

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

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.

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.

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.”