and they were completely puzzled. Now the king was more afraid than ever before, and his face turned white as a ghost.
He was so frightened that his face turned pale, his knees started shaking, and his legs became weak.
During the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had such horrible nightmares that he could not sleep.
Then the people said, “Just hearing about them makes us tremble with fear, and we twist and turn in pain like a woman giving birth.”
The kings of the earth, its famous people, and its military leaders hid in caves or behind rocks on the mountains. They hid there together with the rich and the powerful and with all the slaves and free people.
When King Herod heard about this, he was worried, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem.
Only I saw this great vision. I became weak and pale,
Can men give birth? Then why do I see them looking so pale and clutching their stomachs like women in labor?
They trembled all over like women giving birth
You scattered your enemies with arrows of lightning.