2 A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again for generations to come.
3 Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land before them, and after them it is like a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them.
4 Like the appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run;
5 like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows for battle.
6 From before them nations writhe, all faces turn pale.
7 They run like mighty warriors, they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another; each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons, they are not halted.