Joel 2:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:21 : 21 For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
  • John 10:1 : 1 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
  • Exod 10:6 : 6 and they have filled thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers nor thy father's fathers have seen, since the day of their being on the ground unto this day,' -- and he turneth and goeth out from Pharaoh.

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    7As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

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    10At their face trembled hath the earth, Shaken have the heavens, Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.

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    29From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.

  • Nah 2:4-5
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    4In out-places shine do the chariots, They go to and fro in broad places, Their appearances `are' like torches, As lightnings they run.

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    10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst,

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    9And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.

    10From the abundance of his horses cover thee doth their dust, From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, Shake do thy walls, in his coming in to thy gates, As the coming into a city broken-up.

    11With hoofs of his horses he treadeth all thine out-places, Thy people by sword he doth slay, And the pillars of thy strength to the earth come down.

    12And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.

  • Job 24:16
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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

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    4As the appearance of horses `is' its appearance, And as horsemen, so they run.

    5As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle.

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    2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

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    13And their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine.

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    21For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

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    5If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

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    12As to the prince who `is' in their midst, on the shoulder he beareth in the darkness, and he goeth forth, through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covereth, that he may not look on the very surface of the land.

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    18And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.

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    9And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters `With' violence and deceit.

    10And there hath been in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, The noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the Second, And of great destruction from the hills.

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    9Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

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    15And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,

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    22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

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    16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

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    6Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

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    14And they turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go round about the city.

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