Deuteronomy 32:25 The
sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [
also] with the man of gray hairs.
Psalms 63:1 [[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;
Psalms 144:12-
15 That our sons [
may be]
as plants grown up in their youth; [
that] our daughters [
may be]
as corner stones,
polished [
after] the similitude of a palace: ... Happy [
is that] people, that is in such a case:
[yea], happy [
is that] people, whose God [
is] the LORD.
Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah 41:17-
20 [
When]
the poor and needy
seek water, and [
there is] none, [
and]
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them. ... That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Jeremiah 48:18 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.
Lamentations 1:18 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.
Lamentations 2:10 The
elders of the daughter of Zion
sit upon the ground,
[and] keep silence: they have
cast up dust upon their heads;
they have girded themselves with sackcloth:
the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 2:21 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.
Hosea 2:3 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.
Zechariah 9:17 For
how great [is] his goodness, and
how great [is] his beauty!
corn shall make the young men
cheerful, and new wine the maids.
