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Amos 8:13

Contemporary English Version 1995

Your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

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or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst.

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

The Lord was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.

How lovely they will be. Young people will grow there like grain in a field or grapes in a vineyard.

Zion's leaders are silent. They just sit on the ground, tossing dirt on their heads and wearing sackcloth. Her young women can do nothing but stare at the ground.

People in the town of Dibon, you will be honored no more, so have a seat in the dust. Your walls will be torn down when the enemies attack.

Even young people get tired, then stumble and fall.

You are my God. I worship you. In my heart, I long for you, as I would long for a stream in a scorching desert.

Young and old alike will be killed in the streets and terrified at home.

The Lord was angry with his people and kept punishing them, because they had turned against him. They were evil and spoke foolishly. That's why he did not have pity on their young people or on their widows and orphans.

Your mother was unfaithful. She was disgraceful and said, “I'll run after my lovers. Everything comes from them— my food and drink, my linen and wool, my olive oil and wine.”




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