13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)In these verses is threatened, I. A general judgment of spiritual famine coming upon the whole land, a famine of the word of God , the failing of oracles and the scarcity of good preaching. This is spoken of as a thing at some distance: The days come , they will come hereafter, when another kind of darkness shall come upon that land of light. When Amos prophesied, and for a considerable time after…
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