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Joel 2:6

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

KJV

A facie ejus cruciabuntur populi ; omnes vultus redigentur in ollam.

Vulgate

ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ συντριβήσονται λαοί, πᾶν πρόσωπον ὡς πρόσκαυμα χύτρας.

LXX

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

ASV

מִ/פָּנָ֖י/ו יָחִ֣ילוּ עַמִּ֑ים כָּל פָּנִ֖ים קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 1849×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 125×
ן
n
verb · 61×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
פָארֽוּר
p'rvr
noun · 2×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 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.
  • Jer 8:21 — For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
  • Jer 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?
  • Jer 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?
  • Lam 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.
  • Nah 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.
  • Nah 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.