For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
Joel 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Before them the peoples are in anguish; all faces become pale. American Standard Version (1901) At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale. Common English Bible In their presence, peoples shake with fear; all faces turn red with worry. Catholic Public Domain Version Before their face, the people will be tortured; each one's appearance will retreat, as if into a jar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle. |
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?
For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me.
Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale!
What became of the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion goes, and the lion's cubs, with no one to disturb them?