Joel 2:2-7,9-10 It is a day of darkness and gloom, of black clouds and thick darkness. What a mighty army! It covers the mountain like night! How great, how powerful these “people” are! The likes of them have not been seen before, and never will again throughout the generations of the world! 3 Fire goes before them and follows them on every side! Ahead of them the land lies fair as Eden’s Garden in all its beauty, but they destroy it to the ground; not one thing escapes. 4 They look like tiny horses, and they run as fast.
5 Look at them leaping along the tops of the mountain! Listen to the noise they make, like the rumbling of chariots, or the roar of fire sweeping across a field, and like a mighty army moving into battle. 6 Fear grips the waiting people; their faces grow pale with fright. 7 These “Soldiers” charge like infantry; the scale the walls like picked and trained commandos. Straight forwars they march, never breaking ranks.
9 They swarm upon the city; they run upon the walls ; they climb up into houses, coming like thieves through the windows. 10 The earth quakes before them and the heavens tremble. The sun and moon are obscured and the stars hid. The Living Bible version