New English Translation

Joel 2:2-6 New English Translation (NET)

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!

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!

4. They look like horses;they charge ahead like war horses.

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.

6. People writhe in fear when they see them.All of their faces turn pale with fright.