Joel 2:6
Joel chapter 2 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
Context
v.5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
v.6This passage
v.7They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Isaiah 13:8
and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.
- Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
- Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
- Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.