Joel 1:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

4 Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For a [heathen and hostile] nation [of locusts, illustrative of a human foe] has invaded My land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the jaw teeth of a lioness. [Rev. 9:7, 8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

Common English Bible

because a nation, powerful and beyond number, has invaded my land. Its teeth are like lions’ teeth; its fangs are like those of a lioness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For a nation has ascended over my land: strong and without number. His teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and his molars are like that of a lion's young.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.

Joel 1:6 Cross References

Psalm 107:34

1 And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

Proverbs 30:14

1 By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:

Isaiah 32:13

WOE to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.

Isaiah 8:8

6 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Hosea 9:3

1 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Joel 2:25

For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem: