Joel 2:9

Into the city they hasten forward; on the wall they run; into the houses they climb up; through the windows they make their entrance like a thief.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

In Context

8And they do not press one another; every one on his beaten track do they go forward: and they pass through between war-like weapons, and change not their purpose.

10Before them trembleth the earth; the heavens quake; the sun and the moon are obscured, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the boundaries of Egypt; in very large masses; before them there were no such locusts as they, and after them there will not be any such.

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →

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