Text -- Joel 2:3 (NET)

2:3 Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Joe 2:3

¹ tn Heb “a fire devours before it.”

² tn Heb “like the garden of Eden, the land is before them.”

³ tn Heb “and surely a survivor there is not for it.” The antecedent of the pronoun “it” is apparently עַם (’am, “people”) of v. 2, which seems to be a figurative way of referring to the locusts. K&D 26:191-92 thought that the antecedent of this pronoun was “land,” but the masculine gender of the pronoun does not support this.