Joel 2:2

2 1a day of darkness and gloom, 2a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains 3a great and powerful people; 4their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Joel 2:2 In-Context

1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,
2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
3 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.
5 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Amos 5:18, 20; Zephaniah 1:15
  • 2. Amos 5:18, 20; Zephaniah 1:15
  • 3. Joel 1:6; [ver. 11, 25]
  • 4. [Joel 1:2]
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