Joel 2:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:21 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
  • John 10:1 : 1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
  • Exod 10:6 : 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

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    78%

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

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

  • Joel 2:10
    77%

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

  • Jer 4:29
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    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.

  • Nah 2:4-5
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    75%

    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.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

  • Ezek 26:9-12
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    74%

    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.

    11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

    12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Job 24:16
    74%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

  • Joel 2:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Mic 2:2
    73%

    2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • Jer 9:21
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    21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

  • Obad 1:5
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    5 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

  • Ezek 12:12
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    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.

  • Isa 24:18
    72%

    18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

  • Zeph 1:9-10
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    72%

    9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

    10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • Isa 5:29
    72%

    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.

  • Hab 1:9
    71%

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

  • Isa 33:4
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    4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

  • Isa 2:15
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    15 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

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

    17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Ps 59:6
    71%

    6 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

  • Ezek 7:16
    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.

  • Job 30:5-6
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    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

  • Jer 5:6
    71%

    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Ps 59:14
    70%

    14 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

  • Isa 24:10
    70%

    10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Isa 24:12
    70%

    12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Eccl 12:3
    70%

    3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • Isa 13:14
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 9:1
    70%

    1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Amos 9:2
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    2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

  • Isa 32:13
    70%

    13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

  • Josh 8:6
    70%

    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,

  • Isa 17:14
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    14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Zeph 2:14
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    14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

  • Ezek 12:5
    69%

    5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

  • Job 30:14
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    14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

  • Lev 26:37
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    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.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.