Amos 8:13

At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12People will stagger from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and wander from the north to the east, searching for a message from me, but there will not be any.

14Those who ◄make oaths/solemnly promise to do something► using the names of their shameful gods of Samaria, and those who solemnly promise to do something using the name of the god of Dan, and those who solemnly promise to do something using the name of the god of Beersheba, will all die; and they will never live again.”

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1God, you are the God whom I worship. I greatly desire to be with you like [SIL] a person in a dry hot desert greatly desires some cool water.

Isaiah 40:30Even youths become faint and weary, and young men will fall when they are exhausted.

Jeremiah 48:18You people of Dibon city, stop being proud because of being honored, and sit in the dust/dirt, because those who will destroy other places in Moab will attack your city and destroy your high walls.

Lamentations 2:10The old men of Jerusalem [MTY] sit on the ground, and they say nothing. They wear rough sackcloth and throw dust on their heads to show that they are sad. The young girls of Jerusalem bow down sorrowfully, their faces touching the ground.

Hosea 2:3If they do not do that, I will not give them food and clothes as a husband should give to his wife; I will take away those things, and I will cause their nation to become as deserted as it was on the day that I brought their ancestors out of Egypt and caused them to become a nation [MET]. I will cause their country to be like [SIM] a desert; there will be no rain to water the ground [MET].

Zechariah 9:17They will be delightful and beautiful. The young men will become strong from eating grain, and the young women will become strong from drinking new wine.

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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