Joel 2:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 7 Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up on and into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

Common English Bible

⁹ They rush upon the city; they run upon the walls. They climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like thieves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.

Joel 2:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 9:21

For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

John 10:1

I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures.

Exodus 10:6

Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.

Joel 2:8

6 Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

Exodus 10:14

7 But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.