Joel 2:3

World Messianic Bible British Edition

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 no one has escaped them.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 2:8

The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Psalm 97:3

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the surface 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. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue 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 like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 33:4

Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the LORD of Hosts’ wrath, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

Ezekiel 36:35

They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

Amos 7:4

Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgement by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

Habakkuk 1:6

For, behold, I am raising up the Kasdim, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Zechariah 7:14

“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind amongst all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”