Parallel Verses
King James Version
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
New American Standard Bible
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Holman Bible
all faces turn pale.
International Standard Version
The people are terrified in their presence; every face grows pale.
A Conservative Version
At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.
American Standard Version
At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
Amplified
Before them the people are in anguish;
All faces become pale [with terror].
Bible in Basic English
At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
Darby Translation
Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
Julia Smith Translation
From his face peoples shall be pained: all faces gathered a glow.
King James 2000
Before their face the people shall be in great pain: all faces are drained of color.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{From before them} nations writhe, all faces {turn pale}.
Modern King James verseion
Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The folk shall be afraid of him, all faces shall be as black as a pot.
NET Bible
People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.
New Heart English Bible
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
The Emphasized Bible
Because of him, shall peoples', be in anguish, - all faces, have withdrawn their colour.
Webster
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
World English Bible
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
Youngs Literal Translation
From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 2:6
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Context Readings
The Day Of Yahweh Is Near
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. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 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:
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Cross References
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?
Psalm 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.
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.