Holy Scripture

Joel 2:5

A church father on this verse
“(Chapter 2 — Verses 1 onwards) Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a large and strong peopl…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Joel

Source: Septuagint

Original

5As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

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In context

3Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.

4Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue.

— Joel 2:5 —

6Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.

7As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

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