Amos Chapter 8 verse 13 Holy Bible
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
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In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.
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In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
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In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint for thirst.
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In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Faint.--That fair virgins and strong brave youths should faint by reason of their raging thirst suggests that the less vigorous would suffer even more keenly. It is sad when old men stumble into the darkness of unbelief amid the shining of the noon-day sun, seeing that they can remember the brightness of their morning, but there is always hope that their child-like spirit may return to them, and that at the evening time it may be light; but if fair virgins and strong youths are covered with the inward veil, what will become of them in their westering days? and where will the elders be if they have had no youth?
