Joel 2:3-5

Modern English Version

³ Before them fire devours,
    and behind them a flame blazes;
the land is like the garden of Eden before them,
    but behind them a desolate wasteland,
    and nothing escapes them.
⁴ They have the appearance of horses,
    and like cavalry they run.
⁵ As with the sound of chariots,
    they leap on the mountaintops,
as with the sound of a flame of fire consuming stubble,
    as a mighty army arrayed for war.