Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Joel 2:6 in other translations
| BSB | Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale. |
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| WEB | At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale. |
| ASV | At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale. |
| YLT | From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness. |
| DARBY | Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale. |
| BBE | At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together. |
| Webster | Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. |
What does Joel 2:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 2:1-14
God's judgments. (Joel 2:1-14) Exhortations to fasting and prayer; blessings promised. (Joel 2:15-27) A promise of the Holy Spirit, and of future mercies. (Joel 2:28-32) Verses 1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of…
Joel 2:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joel 2:6
- Nahum 2:10
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
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
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
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.
- Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
- Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Context
- Joel 2:5
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.
- Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
- Joel 2:7
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:
Joel 2:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Delante de él temerán los pueblos, pondránse mustios todos los semblantes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les peuples en sont angoissés, tous les visages pâlissent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vor ihm zittern die Völker, alle Angesichter erblassen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | A facie ejus cruciabuntur populi; omnes vultus redigentur in ollam. |