Joel 2:25 References

25 "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.
4 Their aappearance is like the appearance of horses; And like war horses, so they run.
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.
6 Before them the people are in aanguish; All bfaces turn pale.
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.
10 Before them the earth aquakes, The heavens tremble, The bsun and the moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.
11 The Lord autters His voice before bHis army; Surely His camp is very great, For cstrong is he who carries out His word. The dday of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome, And ewho can endure it?