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As to their form, they’re like horses;
    and like chariot horses, how they can[a] run!
They leap like the rumbling of chariots echoing from mountain tops,
    like the roar of wild fire that devours the chaff,
        as an army[b] firmly established in battle array.
The people are terrified in their presence;
    every face grows pale.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:4 The Heb. lacks can
  2. Joel 2:5 Lit. people
  3. Joel 2:6 Lit. gathers blackness; cf. Nah 2:10b

They have the appearance of horses;(A)
    they gallop along like cavalry.
With a noise like that of chariots(B)
    they leap over the mountaintops,
like a crackling fire(C) consuming stubble,
    like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;(D)
    every face turns pale.(E)

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