Joel 2:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces become flushed.

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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.

Joel 2:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, Your laws I have not forgotten.

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!

Jeremiah 30:6

‘Ask now, and see if a man is giving birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labour, and all faces turned pale?

Jeremiah 8:21

For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been broken. I have grown sad; astonishment has seized me.

Lamentations 4:8

Their appearance has become blacker than soot; They have become unrecognised in the streets; Their skin has shrivelled on their bones, It has become dry, it has become as wood.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, even emptiness and waste! And the heart has melted, and the knees have knocked together, and much pain is in all loins, and all their faces have become flushed.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness and the lion’s cub walked, with no one to disturb them?