Sounds in Joel

I read through this version of the book of Joel a couple of times. The first time I read it, I didn't realize that we were supposed to be looking for sounds, so I just highlighted passages that stuck out to me. After reading our professor's paper over listening to poetry, I reread the book and found a passage that I had already marked and it contains some neat stuff for the ears.
This part where God is explaining the destruction, he does so with such eloquence:

"But I will remove the northern army far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the eastern sea,
And its rear guard into the western sea,
And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up,
For it has done great things."

I first noticed the consonance in the words far and from. When God says Far From you, those fs seem to emphasize the words themselves. The d sounds in the next line also have a punch and go well with what God is speaking here.
Just in this one paragraph, there is a lot of repetition. The conjunction and is used six times in this portion which, I think, gives a sense of quickness to the writing. As I was reading, I kept wanting to find out what was to be said next. I also noticed how vanguard and rear guard are used after each other. This gives importance to the army and also emphasizes it. The sea is also repeated. These two sentences that end in sea are kind of like bookends. They are full of the same sounds, and they stress the point of what God is saying here: the northern army will be driven from sea to sea, but the land in between will only be left with good strong people.
The letters "ern" were repeated in the words northern, western, and eastern. Even western and eastern sound alike to the ear.
I also like the use of the word stench for some reason. The hardness of the ch sound, the crunching down of the vowel because of the n, and the crispness of the st together all seem to make my brain think of some nasty smell.
All of these sounds bring so much to this little portion of the poetry, and then the last line is so simple. "For it has done great things." God uses so many words that have such beautiful sounds, and then the simplicity of this last line in its sound makeup just give it more emphasis. Sometimes, I think simple is better. If the poem would have continued with more and more similar sounds, it would eventually grown boring and tedious. This line gives the reader a break to pause and reflect over everything in the last stanza.