John Trapp on Amos 8:13

Verſe 13. In that day ſhall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirſt,] When God depriveth a people of his Ordinances, and ſo withdraweth his gracious preſence from them, what wonder though temporal judgements come ruſhing in as by a ſluce? Perſecute and take him, (ſaid Davids enemies) for God hath forſaken him, and there is none to deliver him, Pſal. 71.11. The Philiſtins are upon me, ſaith Saul, for God hath forſaken me. Behold, I am caſt out from thy preſence, ſaid Cain (that is, from my fathers houſe where thine ordinances are adminiſtred) and therefore every one that findeth me ſhall ſlay me, Gen. 4.14. In that day of the want of the word, in the day of ſpiritual famine and thirſt, behold aliud ex alio malum, another thirſt ſhall ſeiſe upon the choyceſt and faireſt; as flies ſettle upon the ſweeteſt perfumes, when they are cold, and corrupt them.

Shall the fair virgins] whom all men favour for their comelineſſe, [non-Latin text not transcribed], beauty is of it ſelf lovely and attractive, it needeth no letters of commendations: but God is no reſpecter of perſons, and beauty abuſed is like a fair houſe with an ill inhabitant, ſaid Diogenes: like a jewel of gold in a ſwines ſnout, ſaid Solomon, Prov. 11.22. Some are Helena's without, but Hecuba's within, painted ſepulchres, Egyptian temples; like Aurelia Oreſtilla, of whom Saluſt ſaith, that ſhe had nothing in her praiſe-worthy but her beauty: Fair ſhe was and fooliſh, not [non-Latin text not transcribed], beautiful and wiſe, as it is reported of Aſpaſia Cyrus his concubine.Athenaeus. Now theſe fair maids, together with the choice young men, beſt able to endure thirſt a long ſeaſon,

ſhall faint for thirſt,] Heb. ſhall be over-covered with grief, ſhall be troubled and perplexed, ſhall faint and ſwoon, ſhall find by experience that all fleſh is graſſe, and the glory thereof as the flower of the field, that even the youths ſhall faint and be weary, and the young men ſhall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord ſhall renew their ſtrength, they ſhall mount up with wings as Eagles, they ſhall run and not be weary, and they ſhall walk and not faint. Eſa. 40.30, 31.