Amos 8:13 "In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

English Standard Version
“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

New American Standard Bible
"In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.

International Standard Version
At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men—from thirst.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Darby Bible Translation
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;

Young's Literal Translation
In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

Cross References

Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 41:17
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.

Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:11-14 Here was a token of God's highest displeasure. At any time, and most in a time of trouble, a famine of the word of God is the heaviest judgment. To many this is no affliction, yet some will feel it very much, and will travel far to hear a good sermon; they feel the loss of the mercies others foolishly sin away. But when God visits a backsliding church, their own plans and endeavours to find out a way of salvation, will stand them in no stead. And the most amiable and zealous would perish, for want of the water of life, which Christ only can bestow. Let us value our advantages, seek to profit by them, and fear sinning them away.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. faint for thirst—namely, thirst for hearing the words of the Lord, being destitute of all other comfort. If even the young and strong faint, how much more the infirm (Isa 40:30, 31)!