Joel 2:8
Good News Translation
or get in each other's way. They swarm through defenses, and nothing can stop them.

New Revised Standard Version
They do not jostle one another, each keeps to its own track; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

Contemporary English Version
They charge straight ahead, without pushing each other; even arrows and spears cannot make them retreat.

New American Bible
No one crowds the other; each advances in its own track; They plunge through the weapons; they are not checked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

sword.

2 Chronicles 23:10 And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.

2 Chronicles 32:5 He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields:

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Nehemiah 4:17,23 Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword. . . .

Job 33:18 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

Job 36:12 But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

Songs 4:13 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

Context
The Army of Locusts
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.9They 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.…
Cross References
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 2:7
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.

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.

Joel 2:7
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