Joel 2:6
Good News Translation
As they approach, everyone is terrified; every face turns pale.

New Revised Standard Version
Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale.

Contemporary English Version
The very sight of them is frightening.

New American Bible
Before them peoples tremble, every face turns pale.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

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At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

all.

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Isaiah 13:8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

Jeremiah 8:21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Nahum 2:10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

blackness.

Context
The Army of Locusts
5They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle. 6At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.7They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not turn aside from their ranks.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:8
And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

Jeremiah 8:21
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 30:6
Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

Nahum 2:10
She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

Joel 2:5
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