Joel 2:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the windows as a thief.

Joel 2:9 Cross References

Exodus 10:14

And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt, and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever shall be again.

Exodus 10:6

and they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

Joel 2:8

They do not jostle one another, each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

John 10:1

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber;