Cross References

Joel 2:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The very sight of them is frightening.

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My life is wasting away like a dried up wineskin, but I have not forgotten your teachings.

Can men give birth? Then why do I see them looking so pale and clutching their stomachs like women in labour?

My people are crushed, and so is my heart. I am horrified and mourn.

Now they are blacker than tar, and no one recognizes them; their skin clings to their bones and is drier than firewood.

Nineveh is doomed! Destroyed! Her people tremble with fear; their faces turn pale.

What happened to this city? They were safer there than powerful lions in a den, with no one to disturb them.