Joel 2:3

Rotherham Emphasized Bible 1902

Before him, hath a fire, devoured, and, after him, shall a flame, consume,—As the garden of Eden, is the land before him, but, after him, a desert most desolate, Moreover also, escape, giveth he none.

Cross References

Isaiah 51:3

For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh,—Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Genesis 2:8

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east,—and put there the man whom he had formed.

Zechariah 7:14

But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned,—Yea they made of a delightful land—a desolation.

Exodus 10:15

So it covered the eye of all the land and the land was darkened, and it did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail had left remaining,—so that there was not left remaining any green sprout in the trees or in the herb of the field in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

and it shall cover the eye of the land, so that one shall not be able to see the land,—and it shall eat the residue that hath escaped, that is left you from the hail, and shall eat up all the trees that sprout for you out of the field;

Amos 7:4

Here, My Lord, Yahweh gave me to see, and lo! My Lord Yahweh proclaiming that, the controversy should be settled by fire,—which, having devoured the mighty roaring deep, should devour the inheritance.

Jeremiah 5:17

Then shall it eat thy harvest and thy bread which thy sons and thy daughters should eat,—It shall eat thy flock and thy herd, It shall eat thy vine and thy fig-tree,—It shall destroy thy defenced cities wherein thou, art trusting, with the sword.

Psalm 50:3

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

Genesis 13:10

So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered,—before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.

Psalm 97:3

Fire, before him, proceedeth, That it may consume, round about, his adversaries.

Isaiah 9:18

For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour,—Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, is the land consumed,—And the people have come to be, as fuel for fire, A man unto his own brother, sheweth not pity;

Isaiah 14:17

Who made the world like a desert And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not. Bach one to his home.

Isaiah 15:6

For, the waters of Nimrim, shall become desolation,—For grass, hath dried up, Herbage hath failed, Green thing, hath not sprung up!

Ezekiel 36:35

And they shall say, This land that was made desolate hath become like the garden of Eden,- And the cities that were waste and deserted and thrown down, now fenced, are inhabited;

Isaiah 33:4

Then shall your spoil be gathered as the gathering of the caterpillar,—As the swift running of locusts, is he about to run upon them.

Habakkuk 1:6

For, behold me! raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and headlong nation,—that marcheth to the breadths of the earth, to take possession of habitations, not his.