Before them... behind them. — As with the locusts, so with the invading hosts of enemies: the country is found a paradise, and left a desert.
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Joel 2:3
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.