3 Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.
Joel 2:3
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2 Esdras 15:61–63
61 You will be cast down by them as stubble, and they will be to you as fire. (WEB) 62 They will devour you, your cities, your land, and your mountains. They will burn all your forests and your fruitful trees with fire. (WEB) 63 They will carry your children away captive, and will… (WEB)
Exodus 10:4–6
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Joel 2:9–11
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3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. 4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the you…
Nahum 3:14–16
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