Joel 2:6

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Before their face {H6440} the people {H5971} shall be much pained {H2342}: all faces {H6440} shall gather {H6908} blackness {H6289}.

At their presence the peoples writhe in anguish, every face is drained of color.

Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Nahum 2:10 (6 votes)

    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • Isaiah 13:8 (5 votes)

    And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.

  • Jeremiah 30:6 (4 votes)

    Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

  • Lamentations 4:8 (3 votes)

    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

  • Jeremiah 8:21 (2 votes)

    For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

  • Psalms 119:83 (2 votes)

    ¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.