Joel 2:6 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Before them the peoples are in anguish; all faces become pale.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

Common English Bible

⁶ In their presence, peoples shake with fear; all faces turn red with worry.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Before their face, the people will be tortured; each one's appearance will retreat, as if into a jar.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.

Joel 2:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:83

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

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?

Jeremiah 8:21

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

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.

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.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?