Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 8:21; Lamentations 4:8; Nahum 2:10; Psalms 119:83
Before their face the people shall be much pained - The locust being such a scourge of God, good reason have men to be terrified at their approac...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (e) shall gather blackness. (e) They will be pale and black because of fear, as in ( Na...
Let the Alarm be Sounded, for the Locusts are Precursors of the Day of Yahweh. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound the ala...
people . people's. blackness . paleness.
At length he adds, As a strong people, prepared for battle; their face the people will dread, and all faces shall gather blackness. By these...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. All faces shall gather blackness - Universal mourning shall take...
Before their face, &c.— At their approach the people tremble: all faces contract paleness.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Before their face the people shall be much pained - name...
Repentance followed by Restoration Joel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah ha...
RV 'At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are waxed pale.'
All faces shall gather blackness. — There are different explanations of this Hebrew phrase, which expresses the result of terror. Some translate it...
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of lo...
a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain un...
Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet ro...
It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul exercises, in th...
Before their face the people shall be much pained ,.... Or, "at their presence"; at the sight of them they shall be in pain, as a woman in travail;...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Ver. 6. Before their face the people shall be much pained ] T...
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses Bochart and many other writers mention the resemblance which the head of a locust bears to...
Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 1...
Before their face, at the sight of these locusts, both literally and figuratively considered, the people of the land shall be much pained; as a w...
The March Of The Young Locust/Grasshopperss ( Joel 2:4-11 ). Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their mass movement ma...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion. Joel 2:1...
Joel 2:1 . Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2-3 . Joel 2:2 . A day of darknes...
EXPOSITION Joel 2:1-29 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by...
The Prophet Urges Repentance
Before their face, as they proceed on their path of devastation, the people, all those so visited, shall be much pained, trembling and helpless w...
A Bird's-Eye View of Joel Joel 2:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter has a definite hi...
Blackness — Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness of men frightened into swoons.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.c