Amos 8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 63:1Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to you; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. 1
Isaiah 40:30For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:
Jeremiah 48:18for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had struck Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
Lamentations 2:10JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.
Hosea 2:3that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.
Zechariah 9:17For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.
Matthew Henry on Amos 8:12-14
Spiritual Famine Threatened; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 785.) 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God , that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord : 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord , and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say,… Read the whole commentary →