and they were completely puzzled. Now the king was more afraid than ever before, and his face turned white as a ghost.
You scattered your enemies with arrows of lightning.
They trembled all over like women giving birth
Can men give birth? Then why do I see them looking so pale and clutching their stomachs like women in labour?
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.”
Only I saw this great vision. I became weak and pale,
During the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had such horrible nightmares that he could not sleep.
He was so frightened that his face turned pale, his knees started shaking, and his legs became weak.
When King Herod heard about this, he was worried, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem.
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.