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Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.
Amos 8:13 · Bible in Basic English
Amos 8:13 in other translations
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
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In context
10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
12 And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
13 In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.
14 Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
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