Joel 2:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:21 : 21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’
  • John 10:1 : 1 Jesus as the Good Shepherd“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
  • Exod 10:6 : 6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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    78%

    7They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.

    8They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

  • Joel 2:10
    77%

    10The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

  • Jer 4:29
    75%

    29At the sound of the approaching horsemen and archers the people of every town will flee. Some of them will hide in the thickets. Others will climb up among the rocks. All the cities will be deserted. No one will remain in them.

  • Nah 2:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad plazas; they look like lightning bolts, they dash here and there like flashes of lightning.

    5The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

  • Ps 55:10
    75%

    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

  • Ezek 26:9-12
    4 verses
    74%

    9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

    10He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls.

    11With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.

    12They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

  • Job 24:16
    74%

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • Joel 2:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.

    5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

  • Mic 2:2
    73%

    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Jer 9:21
    72%

    21‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’

  • Obad 1:5
    72%

    5“If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!

  • Ezek 12:12
    72%

    12“The prince who is among them will raise his belongings onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

  • Isa 24:18
    72%

    18The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

  • Zeph 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with wealth taken by violence and deceit.

    10On that day,” says the LORD,“a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

  • Isa 5:29
    72%

    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

  • Hab 1:9
    71%

    9All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

  • Isa 33:4
    71%

    4Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

  • Isa 2:15
    71%

    15for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Ps 59:6
    71%

    6They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

  • Ezek 7:16
    71%

    16Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan– each one for his iniquity.

  • Job 30:5-6
    2 verses
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    5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Jer 5:6
    71%

    6So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

  • Ps 59:14
    70%

    14They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

  • Isa 24:10
    70%

    10The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Isa 24:12
    70%

    12The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

  • Eccl 12:3
    70%

    3when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,

  • Isa 13:14
    70%

    14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

  • Ezek 9:1
    70%

    1The Execution of Idolaters Then he shouted in my ears,“Approach, you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

  • Amos 9:2
    70%

    2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

  • Isa 32:13
    70%

    13Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

  • Josh 8:6
    70%

    6They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say,‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Zeph 2:14
    69%

    14Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.

  • Ezek 12:5
    69%

    5While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

  • Job 30:14
    69%

    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

  • Lev 26:37
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    37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.