Joel 2:7
They run as mighty ones, || As men of war they go up a wall, || And they each go in his own ways, || And they do not change their paths.
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In Context
6Pained are peoples from its face, || All faces have gathered paleness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan! They are loved and pleasant in their lives, || And in their death they have not been parted. They have been lighter than eagles, || They have been mightier than lions!
2 Samuel 5:8And on that day David says, “Anyone striking the Jebusite, let him go up by the watercourse (and the lame and the blind—the hated of David’s soul).” Therefore they say, “The blind and lame—he does not come into the house.”
Psalms 19:5And he, as a bridegroom, goes out from his covering, || He rejoices as a mighty one || To run the path.
Isaiah 5:26And He lifted up an ensign to the far-off nations, || And hissed to it from the end of the earth, || And behold, with haste, it comes swiftly.
Joel 2:9In 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.
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 →