For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Joel 2:6 - Y'all Version Bible 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.
Y’all should ask and consider: Can a male be in childbirth? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach, like a woman in childbirth? Why have all their faces turned pale?
I am broken for the brokenness of the daughter of my people. I mourn. Horror has taken hold of me.
Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
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 with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?