Joel 2:9 - Modern English Version

⁹ They rush on the city, they run on the wall; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like thieves.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 10:14

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. They were very grievous. Never before had there been such locusts as they, nor would there be such ever again.

Exodus 10:6

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

Jeremiah 9:21

“For death has come up into our windows; and 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 marches in his track. Through the weapons they plunge; they do not break rank.

John 10:1

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