Amos 8:13
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New International Version (©2011)
"In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the LORD's word.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.

International Standard Version (©2012)
At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men—from thirst.

NET Bible (©2006)
In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
On that day beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of their thirst.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

American King James Version
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Darby Bible Translation
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

World English Bible
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

Young's Literal Translation
In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:11-14 Here was a token of God's highest displeasure. At any time, and most in a time of trouble, a famine of the word of God is the heaviest judgment. To many this is no affliction, yet some will feel it very much, and will travel far to hear a good sermon; they feel the loss of the mercies others foolishly sin away. But when God visits a backsliding church, their own plans and endeavours to find out a way of salvation, will stand them in no stead. And the most amiable and zealous would perish, for want of the water of life, which Christ only can bestow. Let us value our advantages, seek to profit by them, and fear sinning them away.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - This verse is parallel to the preceding. The thirst, spiritual and physical, shall affect the fair virgins and young men - those in all the freshness, beauty, and vigour of youth. Shall faint; literally, shall be veiled, covered, expressive of the feeling of faintness, when the sight grows dim and a mantle of darkness drops over one (Jonah 4:8). If the strongest thus fail, much more will the rest succumb to the threatened calamity.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. faint for thirst—namely, thirst for hearing the words of the Lord, being destitute of all other comfort. If even the young and strong faint, how much more the infirm (Isa 40:30, 31)!

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The Basket of Ripe Fruit
…12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The manner of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah 41:17 "The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Lamentations 1:18 "The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.
Lamentations 2:21 "Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
Hosea 2:3 Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.