Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Amos 8:13 Explained in Context
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Verse 13. 13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Quick Meaning
This verse shows young women and men fainting from thirst during the word-famine.
Read It With
- Amos 8:11-14
Read Amos 8:13 with 8:11-14. This verse shows young women and men fainting from thirst during the word-famine. The complete unit establishes this movement: After prophetic speech has been rejected, access to the LORD's word becomes unavailable: desperate searching fails, vulnerable young people faint, and rival sacred allegiances cannot prevent final collapse.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The attempted silencing of prophets reaches its consequence: not freedom from warning, but inability to find the word when crisis arrives. Within that movement, this verse shows young women and men fainting from thirst during the word-famine.
What Remains True
Spiritual and social scarcity falls heavily on vulnerable young people.
How It Can Shape Life
- Give young seekers safe access to care and teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 8:11-14 — A Famine of Hearing the LORD's WordsSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 8:11-14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 8:11-14
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Amos with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Amos PDF, printed pp. 1719-1720, translation and notes on 8:11-14
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