Joel 2:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 2:10 : 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.
  • Isa 13:8 : 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 30:6 : 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 : 8 Their visage is bcker 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.
  • Jer 8:21 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

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