Joel 2:3
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
KJV
Ante faciem ejus ignis vorans, et post eum exurens flamma. Quasi hortus voluptatis terra coram eo, et post eum solitudo deserti, neque est qui effugiat eum.
Vulgate
τὰ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ πῦρ ἀναλίσκον, καὶ τὰ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἀναπτομένη φλόξ· ὡς παράδεισος τρυφῆς ἡ γῆ πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ ὄπισθεν αὐτοῦ πεδίον ἀφανισμοῦ, καὶ ἀνασωζόμενος οὐκ ἔσται αὐτῷ.
LXX
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.
ASV
לְ/פָנָי/ו֙ אָ֣כְלָה אֵ֔שׁ וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו תְּלַהֵ֣ט לֶֽהָבָ֑ה כְּ/גַן עֵ֨דֶן הָ/אָ֜רֶץ לְ/פָנָ֗י/ו וְ/אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ מִדְבַּ֣ר שְׁמָמָ֔ה וְ/גַם פְּלֵיטָ֖ה לֹא הָ֥יְתָה לּֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Amos 7:4 — Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
- Deut 28:16 — Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- Ezek 36:35 — And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
- Gen 2:8 — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Gen 2:8 — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Gen 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egy
- Isa 14:17 — That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
- Isa 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, t
- Isa 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, t
- Joel 1:19 — O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
- Ps 50:3 — Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
- Zech 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