Joel 2:2-11 It is a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and of tempestuous obscurity, like the morning-dawn spread out upon the mountains: a people numerous and strong, the like of which hath never been and after it there will be none any more, even to the years of all coming generations.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ² It is a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and of tempestuous obscurity, like the morning-dawn spread out upon the mountains: a people numerous and strong, the like of which hath never been and after it there will be none any more, even to the years of all coming generations. ³ Before it devoureth a fire; and behind it singeth a flame: like the garden of ‘Eden was the land before it came, and after it is a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing escapeth from it. ⁴ Like the appearance of horses is its appearance; and like horsemen, so do they run. ⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains do they leap; they are like the noise of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, as a strong people arrayed for a battle. ⁶ At its presence the people are much pained: all the faces are covered with blackness. ⁷ Like mighty men do they run; like men of war they climb up a wall; and they march every one on his own ways, and they turn not aside on their paths. ⁸ And they do not press one another; every one on his beaten track do they go forward: and they pass through between war-like weapons, and change not their purpose. ⁹ Into the city they hasten forward; on the wall they run; into the houses they climb up; through the windows they make their entrance like a thief. ¹⁰ Before them trembleth the earth; the heavens quake; the sun and the moon are obscured, and the stars withdraw their brightness. ¹¹ And the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for very numerous is his camp; for strong is he that executeth his word; for great is the day of the Lord and very terrible; and who is able to endure it?