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Joel 2:3

Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לְפָנָיו֙le.fa.Nav<to> before itH6440 →
אָ֣כְלָה'A.khe.lahit has consumedH398 →
אֵ֔שׁ'EshfireH784 →
וְאַחֲרָ֖יוve.'a.cha.Ravand after itH310 →
תְּלַהֵ֣טte.la.Hetit sets ablazeH3857 →
לֶֽהָבָ֑הle.ha.Vaha flameH3852 →
כְּגַן־ke.gan-[is] like [the] garden ofH1588 →
עֵ֨דֶן'E.denEdenH5731 →
הָאָ֜רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
לְפָנָ֗יוle.fa.Nav<to> before itH6440 →
וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙ve.'a.cha.Ravand after itH310 →
מִדְבַּ֣רmid.Bara wilderness ofH4057 →
שְׁמָמָ֔הshe.ma.MahdesolationH8077 →
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
פְּלֵיטָ֖הpe.lei.TahescapeH6413 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
הָ֥יְתָהHa.ye.tahit belongsH1961 →
לּֽוֹ׃loto it

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Isaiah 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.Joel 1:19–20To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.Zechariah 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”Ezekiel 36:35Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.Amos 7:4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Psalms 105:34–35He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.Joel 1:4–7What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.Jeremiah 5:17They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”Exodus 10:15They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 31:8–9The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.Exodus 10:5They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.Genesis 7:21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.Joel 1:19To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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