Joel 2:3

Modern King James Version

A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, and nothing shall escape them.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was all well watered (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

Genesis 2:8

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.

Psalm 97:3

A fire goes before Him and burns up His enemies round about.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened. And they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the land, so that one cannot be able to see the earth. And they shall eat the rest of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

Isaiah 14:17

who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are desolation; for the hay has dried up and the grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them.

Isaiah 51:3

For Jehovah shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll upwards like the lifting up of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts is the land scorched, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall have pity on his brother.

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig-trees. One shall beat down your fortified cities with the sword, those in which you trust.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they shall say, This land that was wasted has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted, deserted and ruined cities now are fortified and inhabited.

Amos 7:4

The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.

Habakkuk 1:6

For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.

Zechariah 7:14

But I stormed them away on all the nations whom they did not know. And the land has been wasted behind them, from passing and from returning; for they made the land of desire a waste.