For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
Joel 2:6 - King James 2000 Before their face the people shall be in great pain: all faces are drained of color. 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 am become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, 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 am mourning; dismay has taken hold on me.
Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is on all sides, and the faces of them all grow pale.
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?