Joel 2:6
People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.
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- Nah 2:10 : 10 Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Hearts faint; knees tremble; every stomach churns, all their faces have turned pale!
- Isa 13:8 : 8 They panic– cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.
- Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?
- Lam 4:8 : 8 ח(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.
- Jer 8:21 : 21 My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
- Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
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- Isa 13:7-82 verses78%
7For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.
8They panic– cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.
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10Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Hearts faint; knees tremble; every stomach churns, all their faces have turned pale!
- Joel 2:2-54 verses78%
2It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
3Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!
4They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.
5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.
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10The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.
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7They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.
- Isa 8:21-222 verses77%
21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
- Ezek 7:17-182 verses76%
17All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.
18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
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30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.
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8ח(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.
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6Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?
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30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;
- Nah 2:3-53 verses73%
3Prophetic Vision of the Fall of Nineveh The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The chariots are in flashing metal fittings on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears.
4The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad plazas; they look like lightning bolts, they dash here and there like flashes of lightning.
5The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.
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9All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.
- Exod 15:14-152 verses72%
14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.
15Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.
- Jer 6:23-242 verses72%
23Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle to attack you, Daughter Zion.’”
24The people cry out,“We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!
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15The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
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35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.
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16Habakkuk Declares His Confidence I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.
- Zeph 1:14-152 verses71%
14The LORD’s great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the LORD’s day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.
15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
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31The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!
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16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.
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23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!
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10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
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21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
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21My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
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5“What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.
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3In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
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16Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.
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19They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
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2“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.
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16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?
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17I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.
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12But this will be the nature of the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.
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16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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12Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves.
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12Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;
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7They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.
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6Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.
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2For, look, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness covers the nations, but the LORD shines on you; his splendor appears over you.