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Amos 5:2
2‘You are like a young woman that died young, without children. Now you have fallen down and you will not rise up again. You lie there on the ground. There is nobody there to help you to get up.’
Amos 5:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
- New International Version (NIV)“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up."
- New King James Version (NKJV)The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up.
Context of Amos 5:2
1You people of Israel's family, listen to the sad song that I will sing about you: ‘You are like a young woman that died young, without children. Now you have fallen down and you will not rise up again. You lie there on the ground. There is nobody there to help you to get up.’ 3This is what the Lord God says to you: ‘1,000 soldiers will go out from a city to fight, but only 100 soldiers will come back. From another city, 100 soldiers will go out to fight, but only ten will come back.’ 4To the people of Israel's family, the Lord says, ‘Come back to me and you will live.
Read all of Amos 5Amos 5:2 word by word
נָֽפְלָה֙ לֹֽא־תוֹסִ֣יף ק֔וּם בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל נִטְּשָׁ֥ה עַל־אַדְמָתָ֖הּ אֵ֥ין מְקִימָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The virginבְּתוּלָהbethûlâh · virginH1330
- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
- is fallenנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
- she shall no moreיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
- riseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
- she is forsakenנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
- upon her landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- none to raise her upקוּםqûm · to arise: raiseH6965
Cross-references for Amos 5:2
- Isaiah 37:22This is the Lord's reply. The Lord says this about King Sennacherib: “The holy people of Zion laugh at you! They think that you are useless. Yes, the people of Jerusalem shake their heads as you run away.
- Jeremiah 14:17Say this to the people, Jeremiah: “Tears pour from my eyes all the time. I weep through each day and each night. I am sad about my own dear people. A great trouble has knocked them to the ground. They have received a very bad wound.
- Jeremiah 18:13So the Lord says this: ‘Go and ask the people of other nations! Have they ever heard about anything as terrible as this? My people, Israel, should have been pure. But they have done a disgusting thing!
- Jeremiah 31:4My special people of Israel, I will make you strong again. You will be so happy that you dance, as people make music with tambourines.
- Lamentations 2:13I want to help you people of Jerusalem, but there is nothing that I can say to you. I do not know about anything like what has happened to you. God has destroyed Zion completely! I do not know anyone who can make you people better.
- 2 Kings 15:29While Pekah was the king of Israel, the king of Assyria, Tiglath-Pileser, attacked towns in Israel. He took these places for himself: Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee and all of Naphtali's land. He took the people that lived in those places as prisoners to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 17:16They turned away from all the commands of the Lord their God. They used metal to make images of two calves as their idols. They also made an Asherah pole to worship. They worshipped all the stars in the sky and they served Baal.
- Isaiah 3:8Jerusalem is falling down! The towns of Judah are in trouble! The Lord hates the things that their people say and the things that they do. They have turned against the Lord and they insult him.
- Hosea 14:1Israel's people, return to the Lord your God! Your sins have caused you to fall down.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare to kill this king's children, because of the sins of their ancestors. Then his children will not rule the world. They will not build cities everywhere.’
- Isaiah 24:20The earth is like a drunk man. It cannot walk in a straight line. It moves in all directions, like a tent in a storm. The people's sins are like a heavy weight on the earth. It cannot carry them and it will fall. It will never be able to get up again.
- Isaiah 43:17He led the enemy's great army, with their chariots and their horses, to chase you. They all fell down and the water drowned them. Their lives finished, like the flame of a lamp that stops burning.
- Jeremiah 51:64Then say, “That is how Babylon will sink! It will go down and it will never rise up again. The Lord is ready to cause all these terrible troubles to happen to Babylon. Its people will be too weak to stop it.” ’ That is the end of Jeremiah's messages.
- Jeremiah 4:20They are winning one battle after another! They are destroying the whole land. Our homes are becoming heaps of stones. They quickly knock down our tents.
- Amos 7:2I saw that the locusts came and they ate everything. I asked the Lord, ‘Lord God, please forgive your people. We cannot continue to live if those locusts destroy our food. We are too weak!’
- Amos 9:11The Lord says, ‘When that time comes, I will make David's kingdom strong again. It has become like a broken hut, but I will repair it. I will cause it to become as good and strong as it was when king David ruled.
Commentaries on Amos 5:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The virgin of Israel - The kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, which were carried into captivity; and are now totally lost in the nations of the earth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2She hath fallen, she shall rise no more, the virgin of Israel; she hath been dashed down upon her land, there is none to raise her up - Such is the dirge, a dirge like that of David over Saul and Jonathan, over what once was lovely and mighty, but which had perished. He speaks of all as past, and that, irremediably. Israel is one of the things which had been, and which would never again be. He calls her tenderly, “the virgin of Israel,” not as having…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2In political terms, virgin means a state that has not been conquered by a foreign power. For example: Babylon (Isaiah 47:1) Jerusalem (Lamentations 2:13; compare Lamentations 1:1)Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. virgin of Israel--the Israelite state heretofore unsubdued by foreigners. Compare Is 23:12; Jr 18:13; 31:4, 21; La 2:13; may be interpreted, Thou who wast once the "virgin daughter of Zion." Rather, "virgin" as applied to a state implies its beauty, and the delights on which it prides itself, its luxuries, power, and wealth [Calvin]. no more rise--in the existing order of things: in the Messianic dispensation it is to rise again, according to many…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Amos 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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