Biblia Todo Logo
Cross References
- Advertisements -




Amos 8:13

New American Bible - revised edition

On that day, beautiful young women and young men shall faint from thirst,

See the chapter Copy

13 Cross References  

A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths stagger and fall,

For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.

Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon; Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you, has shattered your strongholds.

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

The elders of daughter Zion sit silently on the ground; They cast dust on their heads and dress in sackcloth; The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Say to your brothers, “My People,” and to your sisters, “Pitied.”

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Then how good and how lovely! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.




Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements