Joel 2:1-3

Easy-to-Read Version

2 Blow the trumpet on Zion.
    Shout a warning on my holy mountain.
Let all the people who live in the land shake with fear.
    The Lord’s special day is coming;
    it is near.
² It will be a dark, gloomy day.
    It will be a dark and cloudy day.
At sunrise you will see the army spread over the mountains.
    It will be a great and powerful army.
There has never been anything like it before,
    and there will never be anything like it again.
³ The army will destroy the land like a burning fire.
    In front of them the land will be like the Garden of Eden.
Behind them the land will be like an empty desert.
    Nothing will escape them.