Joel 2:6 Parallel Translations
NASB: Before them the people are in anguish; All faces turn pale. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: People are terrified in their presence. Every face turns pale.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
ASV: At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
BBE: At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
DBY: Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
ERV: At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are waxed pale.
JPS: At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have gathered blackness.
WBS: Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
WEB: At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
YLT: From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.
Joel 2:6 Cross References
XREF:Isaiah 13:8 They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.

Jeremiah 30:6 Ask now, and see If a male can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth? And why have all faces turned pale?

Nahum 2:10 She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body And all their faces are grown pale! (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces {e} shall gather blackness.
(e) They will be pale and black because of fear, as in Na 2:10.
WES: 2:6 Blackness - Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness of men frightened into swoons.
MHC: 2:1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. The striking description which follows, shows what would attend the devastations of locusts, but may also describe the effects from the ravaging of the land by the Chaldeans. If the alarm of temporal judgments is given to offending nations, how much more should sinners be warned to seek deliverance from the wrath to come! Our business therefore on earth must especially be, to secure an interest in our Lord Jesus Christ; and we should seek to be weaned from objects which will soon be torn from all who now make idols of them. There must be outward expressions of sorrow and shame, fasting, weeping, and mourning; tears for trouble must be turned into tears for the sin that caused it. But rending the garments would be vain, except their hearts were rent by abasement and self-abhorrence; by sorrow for their sins, and separation from them. There is no question but that if we truly repent of our sins, God will forgive them; but whether he will remove affliction is not promised, yet the probability of it should encourage us to repent.
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