Joel 2:7

World English Bible (2000)

They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 30:27 : 27 The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
  • Isa 5:26-29 : 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
  • Joel 2:9 : 9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
  • 2 Sam 1:23 : 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
  • 2 Sam 2:18-19 : 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. 19 Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
  • 2 Sam 5:8 : 8 David said on that day, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore they say, "The blind and the lame can't come into the house."
  • Ps 19:5 : 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

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  • Joel 2:8-10
    3 verses
    84%

    8 Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.

    9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

    10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Joel 2:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

    4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

    5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

    6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • Nah 2:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

    4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

    5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • 5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

  • Isa 5:27-29
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    75%

    27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

    28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

    29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

    15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

  • 1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

  • 16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • Jer 46:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

    6 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

  • 13 He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.

  • 21 They stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.

  • Amos 2:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won't escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

    16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says Yahweh.

  • Ezek 7:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

    17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

  • 42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

  • 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

  • 29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

  • Hab 1:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

    8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

    9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

  • 6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

    10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

  • 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  • 9 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

  • 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

  • 22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

  • 31 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

  • 12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh.

  • 12 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

  • 25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

  • 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

  • 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • 8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.