Joel 2:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ They rush on the city, they run on the wall. They climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief.

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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

Exodus 10:14

And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.

Exodus 10:6

‘And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Jeremiah 9:21

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

Joel 2:8

And they do not press one another, every one goes in his path. They fall among the weapons, but they do not stop.

John 10:1

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber.