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JOEL
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- A day of darkness and of gloominess,
- A day of clouds and of thick darkness,
- As the morning spread upon the mountains:
- A great people and a strong;
- There hath not been ever the like,
- Neither shall be any more after it,
- Even to the years of many generations.
- 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.
- The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;
- And as horsemen, so shall they run.
- Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
- Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
- As a strong people set in battle array.
- Before their face the people shall be much pained:
- All faces shall gather blackness.
- They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war;
- And they shall march every one on his ways,
- And they shall not break their ranks:
- Neither shall one thrust another;
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