Amos 8:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over Israel’s young men and has no compassion on its fatherless and widows, for everyone is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.
Come down from glory; sit on parched ground, resident of the daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.
The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, ‘I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.’
How lovely and beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the grey-haired man.