Joel 2:2-10

2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as blackness spreads over the mountains. A great and mighty people— from antiquity there was never anything like it, nor after it ever again from generation to generation.

3A fire devours before them and behind them flame blazes up. Like the Garden of Eden is the land before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Nothing at all ever escapes them.

4Their appearance is like the appearance of horses— they gallop like war horses.

5Like the clatter of chariots, they leap on the tops of mountains, like crackling flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty horde in battle array.

6Before them peoples are in anguish. All faces become ashen gray.

7They run like mighty men. They climb a wall like men of war. They each march in line, never deviating from their ways.

8One does not crowd another. Each one marches on his own highway. They plunge through the weapons, never breaking off.

9They rush on the city, they run on the wall, they climb up into the houses, coming through the windows like a thief.

10Before them land quakes, heaven trembles, sun and moon become dark, stars withdraw their brightness.