Joel 2:2

A day of darkness, &c.— We have in this and the following verses a description of the locusts: their fierceness and speed, Joel 2:4.; the noise and din of their approach, Joel 2:5.; the order and regularity of their march, Joel 2:7.; their darkening the very lights of heaven by their number and flight, Joel 2:10.; the havoc that they should occasion, Joel 2:3.; the places that they should invade, Joel 2:7; Joel 2:9.; and the consternation and distress which they should bring upon all the inhabitants of the land, Joel 2:6; Joel 2:10. For an account of these terrible destroyers, we refer the reader to the note on Exodus 10:4. Houbigant begins the second verse, after the Chaldee and LXX, thus; Lo! a mighty people and a strong spread themselves like the morning upon the mountains, there hath not been, &c.