Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Joel 2:9 in 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." Isa 33:4 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon. Jer 9:21 For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares. Joh 10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.