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Amos 8:13

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13 En ce jour-là, les belles vierges et les jeunes hommes défailliront de soif;

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.

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Amos 8:13 In-Context

11 Voici, les jours viennent, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel, où j'enverrai la famine dans le pays; non une famine de pain ni une soif d'eau, mais celle d'entendre les paroles de l'Éternel.
12 Ils erreront d'une mer à l'autre, et du nord au levant; ils iront çà et là pour chercher la parole de l'Éternel, et ils ne la trouveront pas.
13 En ce jour-là, les belles vierges et les jeunes hommes défailliront de soif;
14 Ceux qui jurent par le péché de Samarie, qui disent: Vive ton dieu, ô Dan! Et vive la voie de Béer-Shéba! Ils tomberont, et ne se relèveront plus.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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