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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The folk shall be afraid of him, all faces shall be as black as a pot.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
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.
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Because of him, shall peoples', be in anguish, - all faces, have withdrawn their colour.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 They skipped up upon the hills, as it were the sound of chariots; as the flame of fire that consumeth the straw, and as a mighty people ready to the battle. 6 The folk shall be afraid of him, all faces shall be as black as a pot. 7 These shall run like giants, and leap over the walls like men of war. Every man in his going will keep his array, and not go out of his Path.
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Cross References
Nahum 2:10
Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.
Isaiah 13:8
they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame.
Jeremiah 30:6
For what else doth this signify, that I see? Namely, that all strong men smite every man his hand upon his loins, as a woman in the pain of her travail. Who ever saw a man travail with child? Enquire thereafter, and see. Yea, all their faces are marvelous pale.
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do not I forget thy statutes.
Jeremiah 8:21
I am sore vexed, because of the hurt of my people: I am heavy and abashed,
Lamentations 4:8
{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.