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Text -- Joel 2:1-9 (NET)
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The Locusts’ Devastation
2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion ; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain ! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear , for the day of the Lord is about to come . Indeed , it is near !
2:2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness , a day of foreboding storm clouds , like blackness spread over the mountains . It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come !
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!
2:4 They look like horses ; they charge ahead like war horses .
2:5 They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops , like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble , like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle .
2:6 People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.
2:7 They charge like warriors ; they scale walls like soldiers . Each one proceeds on his course ; they do not alter their path .
2:8 They do not jostle one another ; each of them marches straight ahead . They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks .
2:9 They rush into the city ; they scale its walls . They climb up into the houses ; they go in through the windows like a thief .
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NET Notes: Joe 2:3 Heb “and surely a survivor there is not for it.” The antecedent of the pronoun “it” is apparently עַם (̵...
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NET Notes: Joe 2:4 The fact that a locust’s head resembles a miniature replica of a horse’s head has often been noticed. For example, the German word for loc...
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NET Notes: Joe 2:6 Heb “all faces gather beauty”; or “all faces gather a glow.” The Hebrew word פָּארוּ...
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NET Notes: Joe 2:8 Heb “missile” or “javelin.” This term appears to function as a synecdoche for the city’s defenses as a whole (cf. NASB, ...
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