Bible Strands
Amos 8:13
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Amos pronounces this oracle to Israel immediately after describing a national crisis where people will desperately search for the word of the LORD but fail to find it.
The words — The phrase בַּ/יּ֨וֹם הַ/ה֜וּא (ba/i.Yom ha./Hu') literally means "in that day," pinpointing a specific moment of judgment, while תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה (Tit.'a.laf.nah) translates as "they will become faint."
The thread — This pattern of sudden collapse and futile searching recurs in Hosea 2:3, Lamentations 1:18, and Lamentations 2:21, where physical devastation follows covenant abandonment.
Why it lands — The passage demands that a reader acknowledge spiritual drought produces total societal breakdown, requiring immediate alignment with God's word before the opportunity to seek it ends.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Cross-references
- Hosea 2:3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- Lamentations 1:18 The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 2:21 Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
- Deuteronomy 32:25 Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
- Psalms 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Isaiah 40:30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
- Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Jeremiah 48:18 Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
- Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the Daughter of 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.
- Zechariah 9:17 How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.