Joel 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Exodus 10:14

The locusts came upon 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

They shall fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and of all the Egyptians—something that neither your parents nor your grandparents have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Jeremiah 9:21

“Death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.”

Joel 2:8

They do not jostle one another; each keeps to its own track; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

John 10:1

“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.