Joel 2:9
New International Version
They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.

New Living Translation
They swarm over the city and run along its walls. They enter all the houses, climbing like thieves through the windows.

English Standard Version
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

Berean Standard Bible
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief.

New American Standard Bible
They storm the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter through the windows like a thief.

NASB 1995
They rush on the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter through the windows like a thief.

NASB 1977
They rush on the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter through the windows like a thief.

Legacy Standard Bible
They rush on the city; They run on the wall; They climb up into the houses; They enter through the windows like a thief.

Amplified Bible
They rush over the city, They run on the wall; They climb up into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief.

Christian Standard Bible
They storm the city; they run on the wall; they climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like thieves.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They storm the city; they run on the wall; they climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like thieves.

American Standard Version
They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They shall go up into the cities and they shall run upon the walls and they shall climb upon the houses; from the windows they shall enter like thieves

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

Contemporary English Version
They swarm over city walls and enter our homes; they crawl in through windows, just like thieves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the windows as a thief.

English Revised Version
They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They rush into the city. They run along the wall. They climb into houses. They enter through windows like thieves.

Good News Translation
They rush against the city; they run over the walls; they climb up the houses and go in through the windows like thieves.

International Standard Version
They swarm through the city, running upon its ramparts. Climbing atop the houses, they enter through windows like a thief."

JPS Tanakh 1917
They leap upon the city, They run upon the wall, They climb up into the houses; They enter in at the windows like a thief.

Literal Standard Version
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.

Majority Standard Bible
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

New American Bible
They charge the city, they run upon the wall, they climb into the houses; Through the windows they enter like thieves.

NET Bible
They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

New Revised Standard Version
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

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

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Army of Locusts
8They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks. 9They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves. 10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.…

Cross References
John 10:1
"Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Exodus 10:6
They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian--something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.'" Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh's presence.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Joel 2:8
They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.


Treasury of Scripture

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

enter.

Exodus 10:6
And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

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Joel 2
1. He shows unto Zion the terribleness of God's judgment.
12. He exhorts to repentance;
15. prescribes a fast;
18. promises a blessing thereon.
21. He comforts Zion with present,
28. and future blessings.














Verse 9. - They shall run to and fro in the city (or rush to the assault of the city. Wunsche, and so LXX., "They shall seize upon 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 the first clause the comparison with an army still continues. The attack has succeeded, the city has been taken by assault, the victorious troops are running to and fro in the city; so far the locusts are fitly represented by an army vigorous in its advance, steady in its march, resistless in its assault, victorious in its attack, and masters of the captured city. The remainder of the ninth verse is not equally applicable to the figure and the fact in common, but belongs exclusively to the locusts themselves; they creep up the wall, climb up upon the houses, and find ingress even at the windows. "There is no road," says Jerome, "impassable to locusts. They penetrate into fields, and crops, and trees, and cities, and even the recesses of the bedchambers;" while Theodoret remarks of locusts that" not only when flying, but by creeping along the walls, they pass through the windows into the houses themselves." Thus there was no spot to which they could not find access, and no place secure from their assault. Yashoqqu. Aben Ezra and Kimchi both connect this word with shoq, a leg. The latter says, "It has the signification of shoq, a leg, and he mentions this word in respect to the locust, because its legs are long; and further, because it is continually going and seldom resting; and thus he (Isaiah) says, 'As the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them,' as if he said, 'a continual going up and down.'"

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They storm
יָשֹׁ֗קּוּ (yā·šōq·qū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8264: To course, to seek greedily

the city;
בָּעִ֣יר (bā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

they run
יְרֻצ֔וּן (yə·ru·ṣūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 7323: To run

along the wall;
בַּֽחוֹמָה֙ (ba·ḥō·w·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2346: A wall of protection

they climb
יַעֲל֑וּ (ya·‘ă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

into houses,
בַּבָּתִּ֖ים (bab·bāt·tîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1004: A house

entering
יָבֹ֖אוּ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

through
בְּעַ֧ד (bə·‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 1157: In up to, over against, at, beside, among, behind, for

windows
הַחַלּוֹנִ֛ים (ha·ḥal·lō·w·nîm)
Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 2474: A window

like thieves.
כַּגַּנָּֽב׃ (kag·gan·nāḇ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1590: A stealer


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