Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 2:6

6 Before their face the people shall be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness .

At the sight of these locusts both literally and figuratively considered

of the Land;

As a woman in travel is in pain, their fears shall be very great, lest these devouring creatures should sieze and destroy whatever was for support of their life, and life of their Families.

Such as is the colour of dead men, or, as is the dark paleness of men frighted into sits and swoons.