Joel 2:6

Before their face, the amim (nations) shall be in anguish; 1 every face turns pale. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Like the noise of merkavot (chariots) 1 on the tops of mountains shall they leap, 1 like the noise of a flame of eish that devoureth the stubble, 1 as a strong people drawn up in milchamah (battle). 1

7They shall run like gibborim; 1 they shall climb the chomah (wall) like anshei milchamah; 1 and they shall march every one in formation, 1 and they shall not swerve from their course; 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid; 1 pangs and chavalim (pains) shall take hold of them; 1 they shall be in pain like a woman that travaileth in childbirth; 1 one shall be aghast at his re'a; 1 their faces shall be like flaming visages. 1

Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye now, and see 1 whether a zachar (male) doth travail with child? 1 Why do I see every gever 1 with his hands on his stomach, 1 like a woman in labor, 1 and all faces are turned deadly pale? 1

Nahum 2:10Take ye the plunder of kesef, take the plunder of zahav; 1 for there is no end of the treasures, 1 heaps of kol keli chemdah (every delightful vessel). 1

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →

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