Amos 8:13

13 At that time the beautiful young women and the young men will become weak 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 Lord God says: "The days are coming when I will cause a time of hunger in the land. The people will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water, but they will be hungry for words from the Lord.

12 They will wander from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, from the north to the east. They will search for the word of the Lord, but they won't find it.

13 At that time the beautiful young women and the young men will become weak from thirst.

14 They make promises by the idol in Samaria and say, 'As surely as the god of Dan lives . . . ' and, 'As surely as the god of Beersheban lives, we promise . . . ' So they will fall and never get up again."