Joel 1:4-7
New American Standard Bible 1995
4 What the (A)gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the (B)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the (C)stripping locust has eaten.
5 Awake, (D)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is (E)cut off from your mouth.
6 For a (F)nation has [a]invaded my land,
Mighty and without number;
(G)Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has (H)made my vine a waste
And my fig tree [b]splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
Joel 2:2-11
New American Standard Bible 1995
2 A day of (A)darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a (B)great and mighty people;
There has (C)never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.
3 A (D)fire consumes before them
And behind them a flame burns.
The land is (E)like the garden of Eden before them
But a (F)desolate wilderness behind them,
And nothing at all escapes them.
4 Their (G)appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like war horses, so they run.
5 [a]With a (H)noise as of chariots
They leap on the tops of the mountains,
Like the [b]crackling of a (I)flame of fire consuming the stubble,
Like a mighty people arranged for battle.
6 Before them the people are in (J)anguish;
All (K)faces [c]turn pale.
7 They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like soldiers;
And they each (L)march [d]in line,
Nor do they deviate from their paths.
8 They do not crowd each other,
They march everyone in his path;
When they [e]burst through the [f]defenses,
They do not break ranks.
9 They rush on the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the (M)houses,
They (N)enter through the windows like a thief.
10 Before them the earth (O)quakes,
The heavens tremble,
The (P)sun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
11 The Lord (Q)utters His voice before (R)His army;
Surely His camp is very great,
For (S)strong is he who carries out His word.
The (T)day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And (U)who can endure it?
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