Joel 2:1-3

New Century Version

The Coming Day of Judgment

2 Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem;
    shout a warning on my holy mountain.
Let all the people who live in the land shake with fear,
    because the Lord’s day of judging is coming;
    it is near.
²It will be a dark, gloomy day,
    cloudy and black.
Like the light at sunrise,
    a great and powerful army will spread over the mountains.
There has never been anything like it before,
    and there will never be anything like it again.

³In front of them a fire destroys;
    in back of them a flame burns.
The land in front of them is like the garden of Eden;
    the land behind them is like an empty desert.
    Nothing will escape from them.

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