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Joel 2:3
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Joel 2:3
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3 A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like (A)the Garden of Eden before them,
(B)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
Joel 2:3
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Joel 2:3
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Isaiah 51:3
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Isaiah 51:3
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3 For the Lord will (A)comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert (B)like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:3
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Isaiah 51:3
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Genesis 2:8
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Genesis 2:8
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Life in God’s Garden
8 The Lord God planted (A)a garden (B)eastward in (C)Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
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Genesis 2:8
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Genesis 2:8
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8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;(A) and there he put the man he had formed.
Zechariah 7:14
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Zechariah 7:14
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14 “But (A)I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
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Zechariah 7:14
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Zechariah 7:14
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14 ‘I scattered(A) them with a whirlwind(B) among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.(C) This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.(D)’”
Joel 1:19-20
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Joel 1:19-20
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Joel 1:19-20
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Joel 1:19-20
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Exodus 10:15
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Exodus 10:15
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15 For they (A)covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they (B)ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 10:15
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Exodus 10:15
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15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured(A) all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:5
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Exodus 10:5
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5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that no one will be able to see the earth; and (A)they shall eat the residue of what is left, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.
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Exodus 10:5
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Exodus 10:5
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5 They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left(A) after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.(B)
Amos 7:4
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Amos 7:4
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Vision of the Fire
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called [a]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the [b]territory.
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Amos 7:4
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Amos 7:4
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4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(A) it dried up the great deep and devoured(B) the land.
Joel 1:4-7
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Joel 1:4-7
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4 (A)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you (C)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
(D)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For (E)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(F)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [b]fierce lion.
7 He has (G)laid waste My vine,
And [c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
Joel 1:4-7
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Joel 1:4-7
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4 What the locust(A) swarm has left
the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left(B)
other locusts[a] have eaten.(C)
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(D)
wail because of the new wine,
for it has been snatched(E) from your lips.
6 A nation has invaded my land,
a mighty army without number;(F)
it has the teeth(G) of a lion,
the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste(H) my vines
and ruined my fig trees.(I)
It has stripped off their bark
and thrown it away,
leaving their branches white.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
Ezekiel 31:8-9
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Ezekiel 31:8-9
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8 The cedars in the (A)garden of God could not hide it;
The fir trees were not like its boughs,
And the [a]chestnut trees were not like its branches;
No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.
9 I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,
So that all the trees of Eden envied it,
That were in the garden of God.’
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 31:8 Or plane, Heb. armon
Ezekiel 31:8-9
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Ezekiel 31:8-9
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8 The cedars(A) in the garden of God
could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees(B)
compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
could match its beauty.(C)
9 I made it beautiful
with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden(D)
in the garden of God.(E)
Jeremiah 5:17
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Jeremiah 5:17
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17 And they shall eat up your (A)harvest and your bread,
Which your sons and daughters should eat.
They shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
They shall destroy your fortified cities,
In which you trust, with the sword.
Psalm 105:34-35
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Psalm 105:34-35
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34 (A)He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,
35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
Psalm 105:34-35
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Psalm 105:34-35
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Psalm 50:3
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Psalm 50:3
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3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;
(A)A fire shall devour before Him,
And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.
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