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Amos 8:13

Word of Yahweh

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

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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O Elohim, thou art my El; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Therefore Yahweh 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 speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy honour, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.

Yahweh 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.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

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.

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.




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