Joel 2:6

World English Bible (2000)

At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
  • Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings 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 mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.

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    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

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    17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

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