Joel 2:1-3

Contemporary English Version

2 Sound the trumpet on Zion,
    the Lord's sacred hill.
Warn everyone to tremble!
The judgment day of the Lord
    is coming soon.
² It will be dark and gloomy
    with storm clouds overhead.
Troops will cover the mountains
    like thunderclouds.
No army this powerful
has ever been gathered before
    or will be gathered again.
³ Fiery flames surround them;
    no one escapes.
Before they invaded,
the land was like Eden;
    now only a desert remains.