A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
bA people come, great and strong,
cThe like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations.
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like athe Garden of Eden before them,
bAnd behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.
They climb the wall like men of war;
Every one marches in formation,
And they do not break aranks.
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Joel 2:4
The appearance of horses - The head of the locust is remarkably like that of the horse; and so Ray on Insects describes them: Caput oblongum, equi instar, prona spectans - "They have an oblong head, like to that of a horse, bending downward." On this account the Italians call them cavaletta , cavalry. Bochart remarks, from an Arabic writer, that the locusts resemble ten different kinds of animals:
1.The Horse in its head.
2.The Elephant in its eyes.
3.The Bull in its neck.
4.The Stag in its horns.
5.The Lion in its breast.
6.The Scorpion in its belly.
7.The Eagle in its wings.
8.The Camel in its thighs.
9.The Ostrich in its feet. And
10.The Serpent in its tail.
Vid. Hieroz., vol. ii., p. 475, edit. 1692.
But its most prominent resemblance is to the horse, which the prophet mentions; and which the Arabic writer puts in the first place, as being the chief.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Joel 2:4:
Exodus 10:4
Joel 2:7
Revelation 9:7
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