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.

Cross References (13)

  • Isaiah 51:3 (7)

    For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and

  • Genesis 2:8 (5)

    And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

  • Joel 1:19–20 (5)

    To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

  • Zechariah 7:14 (4)

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behi

  • Amos 7:4 (3)

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devou

  • Psalms 50:3 (3)

    Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

  • Genesis 13:10 (2)

    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of

  • Exodus 10:15 (2)

    They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fru

  • Joel 1:4–7 (2)

    What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust h

  • Ezekiel 31:8–9 (2)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane tre

  • Exodus 10:5 (2)

    They 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

  • Jeremiah 5:17 (2)

    They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herd

  • Psalms 105:34–35 (2)

    He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.