O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water.
Amos 8:13 - The Scriptures 2009 “In that day the beautiful maidens and strong young men shall faint from thirst, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. American Standard Version (1901) In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. Common English Bible On that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint with thirst. Catholic Public Domain Version In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst. |
O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall,
Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
“Come down from your esteem, and sit in thirst, O inhabitant, daughter of Diḇon. For the ravager of Mo’aḇ shall come against you, he shall destroy your strongholds.
יהוה is righteous, for I rebelled against His mouth. Hear now, all peoples, and see my pain. My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yerushalayim Have let their heads hang to the ground.
“Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your displeasure, You have slaughtered without compassion.
lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst.
“For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’
For what goodness is His, and what comeliness is His. Grain make the young men thrive, and new wine the maidens!
“The sword bereaves from the outside, And fear from within, Both young man and maiden, Nursing child with the man of grey hairs.