Joel 2:25 References
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"Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming alocust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you.
a Joel 1:4-7, Joel 2:2-11
Joel 1
4
What the agnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the bswarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the cstripping locust has eaten.
5
Awake, adrunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is bcut off from your mouth.
6
For a anation has invaded my land, Mighty and without number; bIts teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7
It has amade my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.
Joel 2
2
A day of adarkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a bgreat and mighty people; There has cnever been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.
3
A afire consumes before them And behind them a flame burns. The land is blike the garden of Eden before them But a cdesolate wilderness behind them, And nothing at all escapes them.
5
With a anoise as of chariots They leap on the tops of the mountains, Like the crackling of a bflame of fire consuming the stubble, Like a mighty people arranged for battle.
7
They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like soldiers; And they each amarch in line, Nor do they deviate from their paths.
8
They do not crowd each other, They march everyone in his path; When they burst through the defenses, They do not break ranks.
9
They rush on the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the ahouses, They benter through the windows like a thief.