Joel 2:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

Joel 2:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

Isaiah 13:8

and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 8:21

For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

Lamentations 4:8

Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.

Nahum 2:10

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

Nahum 2:11

Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?