Amos 8:13

13 “In that day “the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

Amos 8:13 in Other Translations

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

13 "In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

13 Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the LORD ’s word.

13 "On Judgment Day, lovely young girls will faint of Word-thirst, robust young men will faint of God-thirst,

13 In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.

Amos 8:13 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 8:13

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for
thirst.
] After the word, for want of that grain and wine, which make young men and maids cheerful, ( Zechariah 9:17 ) ; but, being destitute of them, should be covered with sorrow, overwhelmed with grief, and ready to sink and die away. These, according to some, design the congregation of Israel; who are like to beautiful virgins, as the Targum paraphrases it; and the principal men of it, the masters of the assemblies: or, as others, such who were trusting to their own righteousness, and seeking after that which they could never attain justification by, and did not hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ, and so perished.

Amos 8:13 In-Context

11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

13 “In that day “the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria— who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 9:17
• 2. Isaiah 41:17; Hosea 2:3