Ask now, and see whether a man labors in giving birth? why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in birth labor, and all faces are turned to paleness?
Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my attractiveness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
Then the king’s appearance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against another.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;