Joel 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Before them the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

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  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in labor: they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames.
  • Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask now, and see whether a man is in labor with a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale?
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has become like a stick.
  • Jer 8:21 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt; I am in mourning; astonishment has taken hold of me.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes.

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    2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

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