Bible in Basic English
"At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together."
— Joel 2:6, Bible in Basic English
“Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.”
“At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale. ”
“At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.”
“People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.”
“At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.”
“Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.”
Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.
Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.
At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.
No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.
They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.