Yoël 2:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Terhadapnya bangsa-bangsa gemetar, segala muka bertambah menjadi pucat pasi.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Terhadapnya bangsa-bangsa gemetar, segala muka bertambah menjadi pucat pasi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dari hadapannya segala bangsa akan dalam penyakit dan muka segala orangpun suramlah cahayanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, and showte in my holy hyll, let all the inhabitauntes of the earth tremble: for the day of the Lorde is come, for it is nye at hande. ² A darke and glomie day, a cloudie and blacke day: as the mornyng is spread ouer the mountaynes [so is this] populus & strong people, like it there was none from the beginning, nor shalbe herafter for euermore. ³ Before him is a deuouryng fire, and behynde him a burnyng flambe: the lande is as a pleasaunt garden before him, and behinde him a waste desert, yea and nothyng shall escape him. ⁴ The shewe of him is as the shewe of horses, and like horsemen, so shall they runne. ⁵ Lyke the noyse of charrettes vpon the toppes of the mountaynes they shall skip, like the noyse of a flamyng fire deuouryng the stubble, [and] as a strong people prepared to battayle. ⁶ Before his face shall the people tremble, the countenaunce of all folkes shall waxe [blacke] as a pot. ⁷ They shall runne like strong men, and climbe the walles like men of warre: & euery one shall march on in his way, and they shal not linger in their pathes. ⁸ No man shall thrust another, but euery one shall walke in his path: and if they shall fall on the sworde, they shall not be wounded. ⁹ They shall runne to and fro in the citie, they shall runne vp & downe vpon the wall, they shall climbe into the houses, they shall enter in at the windowes like a theefe. ¹⁰ The earth shall quake before him, the heauens shall tremble, the sunne and the moone shalbe darke, and the starres shall withdrawe their shinyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all: Psalms 119:83, Isaiah 13:8, Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 30:6, Lamentations 4:8, Nahum 2:10

blackness: Heb. pot

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 14:2 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; into such distress an army of locusts would throw them, since they might justly fear all the fruits of the earth would be devoured by them, and they should have nothing left to live upon; and a like consternation and pain the army of the Assyrians or Chaldeans upon sight filled them with, as they expected nothing but ruin and destruction from them:

all faces shall gather blackness; like that of a pot, as the word m signifies; or such as appears in persons dying, or in fits and swoons; and this here, through fear and hunger; see Nahum 2:10.

m פארור "fuliginem", Montanus; "luridum ollae colorem", Tigurine version, Tarnovius; "ollam pro nigore ollae", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 approach; and those are most terrified who have most felt the affliction. In Abyssinia, some province of which was desolated every year, one relates , “When the locusts travel, the people know of it a day before, not because they see them, but they see the sun yellow and the ground yellow, through the shadow which they cast on it (their wings being yellow) and immediately the people become as dead, saying, ‘we are lost, for the Ambadas (so they call them) are coming.’ I will say what I have seen three times; the first was at Barva. During three years that we were in this land, we often heard them say, ‘such a realm, such a land, is destroyed by locusts:’ and when it was so, we saw this sign, the sun was yellow, and the shadow on the earth the same, and the whole people became as dead.” “The Captain of the place called Coiberia came to me with men, Clerks, and Brothers (Monks) to ask me, for the love God, to help them, that they were all lost through the locusts.” : “There were men, women, children, sitting among these locusts, the young brood, as stupefied. I said to them ‘why do you stay there, dying? Why do you not kill these animals, and avenge you of the evil which their parents have done you? and at least when dead, they will do you no more evil.’ They answered, that they had no courage to resist a plague which God gave them for their sins. We found the roads full of men, women, and children, (some of these on foot, some in arms) their bundles of clothes on their heads, removing to some land where they might find provisions. It was pitiful to see them.”

Burkhardt relates of South Arabia , “The Bedouins who occupy the peninsula of Sinai are frequently driven to despair by the multitudes of locusts, which constitute a land-plague. They remain there generally for forty or fifty days, and then disappear for the rest of the year.” Pliny describes their approach , “they overshadow the sun, the nations looking up with anxiety, lest they should cover their lands. For their strength suffices, and as if it were too little to have passed seas, they traverse immense tracts, and overspread them with a cloud, fatal to the harvest.”

All faces shall gather blackness - Others, of high-authority, have rendered, shall “withdraw (their) beauty” . But the word signifies to collect together, in order that what is so collected should be present, not absent ; and so is very different from another saying, the stars shall withdraw their shining Joel 2:10; Joel 3:15. The “their” had also needed to be expressed.) He expresses how the faces contract a livid color from anxiety and fear, as Jeremiah says of the Nazarites, “Their visage is darker than blackness” (Lamentations 4:8, see Margin). : “The faces are clothed with lurid hue of coming death; hence they not only grow pale, but are blackened.” A slight fear drives the fresh hue from the cheek: the livid hue comes only with the deepest terror. So Isaiah says; “they look amazed one to the other; faces of flame are their faces” Isaiah 13:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. All faces shall gather blackness. — Universal mourning shall take place, because they know that such a plague is irresistible.