For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.
Joel 2:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Before them the peoples are in anguish; all faces become pale. American Standard Version (1901) At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale. Common English Bible In their presence, peoples shake with fear; all faces turn red with worry. Catholic Public Domain Version Before their face, the people will be tortured; each one's appearance will retreat, as if into a jar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle. |
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.
They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?