Amos 5:2

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

1Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel: The people of Israel have fallen, never to rise again. They lie abandoned in their own land. There is no one to help them. 3This is what the Almighty Lord says: The city that sends 1,000 troops off to war will have ⌞only⌟ 100 left. The one that sends 100 troops off to war will have ⌞only⌟ 10 left for the nation of Israel. 4This is what the Lord says to the nation of Israel: Search for me and live!

Amos 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 message that the Lord speaks to him, ‘My dear people in Zion despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.
• Jeremiah 14:17“Say this to them: ‘My eyes flow with tears day and night without stopping because my dear people will suffer massive destruction. It will be a very serious blow.’ ”
• Jeremiah 18:13“This is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations if anyone has ever heard anything like this. The people of Israel have done a very horrible thing.
• Jeremiah 31:4Once again I will build you up, and you will be rebuilt, my dear people Israel. Once again you will take your tambourines, and you will go dancing with happy people.
• Lamentations 2:13“What example can I give you? What parallel can I show you, people of Jerusalem? What comparison can I make that will comfort you, beloved people of Zion? Your wounds are as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
• 2 Kings 15:29In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and the entire territory of Naphtali. He also took the people away to Assyria as captives.
• 2 Kings 17:16They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God: They made two calves out of cast metal. They made a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah. They prayed to the entire army of heaven. They worshiped Baal.
• Isaiah 3:8Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against the Lord. They are defiant in his honored presence.
• Hosea 14:1Israel, return to the Lord your God. You have stumbled because of your sins.
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter their sons because of their ancestors’ guilt. They won’t be able to rise, possess the earth, and rebuild cities all over it.
• Isaiah 24:20The earth will stumble like a drunk and sway like a shack in the wind. Its disobedience weighs heavy on it. It will fall and not get up again.
• Isaiah 43:17He leads chariots and horses, an army and reinforcements. (They lie down together and do not get up ⌞again⌟. They are extinguished and snuffed out like a wick.) This is what the Lord says:
• Jeremiah 51:64Say, ‘Babylon will sink like this scroll. It will never rise again because of the disasters that I will bring on it.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.
• Jeremiah 4:20One disaster follows another. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.
• Amos 7:2When the locusts had finished eating every plant in the land, I said, “Almighty Lord, please forgive us! How can ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob survive? There are so few of them.”
• Amos 9:11On that day I will set up David’s fallen tent. I will repair the holes in it. I will restore its ruined places. I will rebuild them as they were a long time ago.

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

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• Jacob, Israel
• Manifold
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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