KJV King James Version
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
WEB World English Bible
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
ASV American Standard Version
At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.
Surrounding context — Joel 2
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Cross-references
Nahum 2:10She 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 13:8And 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 30:6Ask 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 4:8Their 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.Psalm 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.Jeremiah 8:21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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