“At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.” Joel 2:6

“Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.” Joel 2:5

“The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.” Joel 2:4

“A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.” Joel 2:3

“A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.” Joel 2:2

“Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord comes, for it is close at hand:” Joel 2:1

“Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.” Joel 1:20

“Lord, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.” Joel 1:19

“How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.” Joel 1:18

“The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.” Joel 1:17