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They leap like the rumbling of chariots echoing from mountain tops,
    like the roar of wild fire that devours the chaff,
        as an army[a] firmly established in battle array.
The people are terrified in their presence;
    every face grows pale.[b]
They run like elite soldiers,
    climbing ramparts like men trained for war.
Each man advances in proper order,
    never breaking rank.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:5 Lit. people
  2. Joel 2:6 Lit. gathers blackness; cf. Nah 2:10b