Holy Scripture

Joel 2:7

A church father on this verse
“(Chapter 2 — Verses 1 onwards) Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a large and strong peopl…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Joel

Source: Septuagint

Original

7As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

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In context

5As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

6Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.

— Joel 2:7 —

8and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in nowise be destroyed.

9They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

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