Joel 2:3
"A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them."
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- Isaiah 51:3
"For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 2:8
"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
Read in chapter → - Joel 1:19
"O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 7:14
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 50:3
"Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him."
Read in chapter → - Amos 7:4
"Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:17
"And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 105:34
"He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 10:5
"And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:"
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 31:8
"The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty."
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