[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Amos 8:13 - King James 2000 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for 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. |
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you 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 the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
You daughter that does inhabit Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the plunderer of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strongholds.
The LORD 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 have 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 have fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.
Lest I strip her naked, and make her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maidens.
The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.