Joel 2:7

As 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.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

In Context

6From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.

8And each his brother they press not, Each in his way they go on, If by the missile they fall, they are not cut off.

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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. Than eagles they have been lighter, Than lions they have been mightier!

2 Samuel 5:8And David saith on that day, 'Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind — the hated of David's soul,' — because the blind and lame say, 'He doth not come into the house.'

Psalms 19:5And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

Isaiah 5:26And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.

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 →

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