The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
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Gill's Exposition
The earth shall quake before them,.... The inhabitants of it, because of the desolating judgments they bring with them, and those enemies that are signified by them:
the heavens shall tremble; being…
Barnes' Notes
The earth shall quake before them - “Not,” says Jerome, “as though locusts or enemies had power to move the heavens or to shake the earth; but because, to those under trouble, for their exceeding…
Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law (Deu 28:42), The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume, which was…
The locusts of Joe 2:2-9, as was remarked on Joe 2:2, are to a certain extent idealized, and pictured as more alarming and formidable than ordinary locusts; and in these two verses, other…
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