Joel 2:7
Good News Translation
They attack like warriors; they climb the walls like soldiers. They all keep marching straight ahead and do not change direction

New Revised Standard Version
Like warriors they charge, like soldiers they scale the wall. Each keeps to its own course, they do not swerve from their paths.

Contemporary English Version
They climb over walls like warriors; they march in columns and never turn aside.

New American Bible
Like warriors they run, like soldiers they scale walls, Each advancing in line, without swerving from the course.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not turn aside from their ranks.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not turn aside from their ranks.

They shall run.

2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

2 Samuel 2:18,19 And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai, and Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that abide in the woods. . . .

Psalm 19:5 He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom coming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:

Isaiah 5:26-29 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. . . .

climb.

Joel 2:9 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.

2 Samuel 5:8 For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike the Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and take away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David: therefore it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not come into the temple.

Jeremiah 5:10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.

they shall march.

Proverbs 30:27 The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands:

Context
The Army of Locusts
6At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle. 7They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not turn aside from their ranks.8No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk every one in his path: yea, and they shall fall through the windows, and shall take no harm.…
Cross References
Job 16:14
He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

Proverbs 30:27
The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands:

Isaiah 5:27
There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.

Joel 2:8
No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk every one in his path: yea, and they shall fall through the windows, and shall take no harm.

Joel 2:6
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