“Before them,
People are in anguish.
All faces grow pale.
Like warriors,
They charge.
Like soldiers,
They scale the wall.
Each keeps
To his own course.
They do not swerve
From their paths.
They do not jostle
One another.
Each keeps
To his own track.
They burst
Through the weapons
They are not halted.
They leap upon the city.
They run upon the walls.
They climb up
Into the houses.
They enter
Through the windows,
Like a thief.”
Joel continued his description of the swarm of locusts as they attacked the city and the people in it. The people there were in aguish, as their faces turned pale. These grasshoppers charged like warriors. They scaled the walls like soldiers. These locusts stayed in formation, not wandering around. They did not try to push each other around. They were able to go straight through any barriers or weapons. They leapt into the city on its walls and in its houses. These locusts came through the windows, like a thief in the night. This plague of grasshoppers was really strong and powerful in their destruction.
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