Joel 2:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

A fire consumes before them, And behind them a flame devours. The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, But a desolate wilderness behind them, And nothing at all escapes them.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot raised his eyes and saw all the vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt going toward Zoar.

Genesis 2:8

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

Psalm 50:3

May our God come and not keep silent; Fire devours before Him, And a storm is violently raging around Him.

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before Him And burns up His enemies all around.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Therefore nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

And they will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has survived—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree of yours which grows in the field.

Isaiah 14:17

Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is no greenery.

Isaiah 33:4

Your plunder is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; Like an infestation of locusts, people storm it.

Isaiah 51:3

Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her ruins. 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 the sound of a melody.

Isaiah 9:18

¶For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

By the wrath of the Lord of armies the land is burned, And the people are like fuel for the fire; No one spares his brother.

Jeremiah 5:17

“They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they will say, ‘This desolated land has become like the Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolated and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

Amos 7:4

So the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farmland.

Habakkuk 1:6

“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That grim and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth, To take possession of dwelling places that are not theirs.

Zechariah 7:14

“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they did not know. So the land was desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, since they made the pleasant land desolate.”