Joel 2:2-4

International Standard Version

² A day of doom and gloom,
    a day of clouds and shadows^[a]
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^[b] it,
        even through the lifetime of generation upon generation.”^[c]

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.
⁴ As to their form, they’re like horses;
    and like chariot horses, how they can^[d] run!