<p>9:8 <em>And they had hair as the hair of women- </em>The long hair of the jihadist fighters.</p><p><em>And their teeth were like that of lions</em>- The quotation from Joel 1:6 means that these forces will be a latter day Babylon or Assyria invading Israel. Lions are a common OT symbol of Babylon-Assyria, the historical prototype of Israel's latter day invader.</p>