Joel 2:6
At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- A facie ejus cruciabuntur populi ; omnes vultus redigentur in ollam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ συντριβήσονται λαοί, πᾶν πρόσωπον ὡς πρόσκαυμα χύτρας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מִפָּנָ֖יו יָחִ֣ילוּ עַמִּ֑ים כָּל פָּנִ֖ים קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר
Haydock's commentary
Kettle. The Jews were naturally of a dark complexion. Fear causing the blood to retire, would make them black, Isaias xiii. 8., Lamentations iv. 8., and v. 10. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.