Joel 2:3-5

International Standard Version

³ “A fire blazes in their presence,
    and behind them a conflagration rages.
Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden;
    after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland.
        Indeed, nothing escapes them.
⁴ As to their form, they’re like horses;
    and like chariot horses, how they can^[a] run!
⁵ They leap like the rumbling of chariots echoing from mountain tops,
    like the roar of wild fire that devours the chaff,
        as an army^[b] firmly established in battle array.