Joel 2:1-3

International Standard Version

2 “Sound the ram’s horn in Zion!
Sound an alarm on my holy mountain!
Tremble, all of you^[a] inhabitants of the land,
because the Day of the Lord is coming.
        Oh, how near it is!
² A day of doom and gloom,
    a day of clouds and shadows^[b]
like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains—
    a people strong and robust.
Never has there been anything like it,
    neither will anything follow to compare with^[c] it,
        even through the lifetime of generation upon generation.”^[d]

³ “A fire blazes in their presence,
    and behind them a conflagration rages.
Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden;
    after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland.
        Indeed, nothing escapes them.