Joel 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:21 : 21 For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
  • John 10:1 : 1 Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
  • Exod 10:6 : 6 And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.

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  • Joel 2:7-8
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    78%

    7They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

    8No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

  • Joel 2:10
    77%

    10The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

  • Jer 4:29
    75%

    29All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • Nah 2:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

    5The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • Ps 55:10
    75%

    10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • Ezek 26:9-12
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    74%

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

    10Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

    11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Job 24:16
    74%

    16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

  • Joel 2:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.

    5Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Mic 2:2
    73%

    2They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Jer 9:21
    72%

    21For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

  • Obad 1:5
    72%

    5If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

  • Ezek 12:12
    72%

    12And the ruler who is among them will take his goods on his back in the dark and go out: he will make a hole in the wall through which to go out: he will have his face covered so that he may not be seen.

  • Isa 24:18
    72%

    18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

  • Zeph 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

    10And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

  • Isa 5:29
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    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Hab 1:9
    71%

    9They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

  • Isa 2:15
    71%

    15And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

    22Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Ps 59:6
    71%

    6They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

  • Ezek 7:16
    71%

    16And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.

  • Job 30:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

    6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • Jer 5:6
    71%

    6And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • Ps 59:14
    70%

    14And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

  • Isa 24:10
    70%

    10The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Isa 24:12
    70%

    12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Eccl 12:3
    70%

    3In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

  • Isa 13:14
    70%

    14And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

  • Ezek 9:1
    70%

    1Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

  • Amos 9:2
    70%

    2Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • Isa 32:13
    70%

    13And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

  • Josh 8:6
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    6And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Zeph 2:14
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    14And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.

  • Ezek 12:5
    69%

    5Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

  • Job 30:14
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    14As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • Lev 26:37
    69%

    37Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

  • Isa 13:16
    69%

    16Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.