Joel 2:3

New Messianic Version Bible

A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land [is] as the garden of ‘Eden [pleasure] before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

Cross References

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall comfort Tziyon [parched place]: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like ‘Eden [pleasure], and her desert like the Garden of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm [The Living Word] planted a garden eastward in ‘Eden (bliss); and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Zechariah 7:14

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue (part that remains, the rest) of that which is escaped, which remains unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field:

Amos 7:4

Thus has the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up youri harvest, and youri bread, [which] youri sons and youri daughters should eat: they shall eat up youri flocks and youri herds: they shall eat up youri vines and youri fig trees: they shall impoverish youri fenced cities, wherein youi trusted, with the sword.

Psalm 50:3

Our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot (Covering) lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Yarden (The Descender, Descending), that it [was] well watered everywhere, before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) destroyed S’dom (burning, denotes penal constrictions around the ankles) and ‘Amora (submersion, Tyrants, bind sheaves, People of Fear), [even] as the garden of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), like the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt] (Double Distress or Double Stronghold, Black Land), as youi come unto Tzo’ar (little place).

Psalm 97:3

A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Isaiah 14:17

[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim [pure] shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of ‘Eden [pleasure]; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited.

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil (plunder; prey; booty) shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

Habakkuk 1:6

For, lo, I raise up the Kasdim [clod-breakers], [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.