Amos 8:13

In that day beautiful girls and strong young men will faint from thirst.

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In The King James Version

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

In Context

12Then they will wander from sea to sea, from the north to the east, to seek a message from the Lord, but they will not find it.

14Those who take oaths by the shameful idol of Samaria, who swear, ‘As surely as your God lives, O Dan!’ and, ‘By the sacred way to Beer-sheba!’ – they will fall and never rise again.

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1O God, my God, you, you do I seek: my heart thirsts for you, my body faints for you in a parched and waterless land.

Hosea 2:3else I will strip her bare, expose her as she was on the day of her birth, make her like the wilderness, let her become like a parched land, and let her die of thirst.

Zechariah 9:17How good and how beautiful will it be! Corn will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women!

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 →

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