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

1Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel: She has fallen, she will not rise again-- The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on her land; There is none to raise her up. 3For thus says the Lord God, “The city which goes forth a thousand strong Will have a hundred left, And the one which goes forth a hundred strong Will have ten left to the house of Israel.” 4For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, “Seek Me that you may live.

Amos 5:2 word by word

נָֽפְלָה֙ לֹֽא־תוֹסִ֣יף ק֔וּם בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל נִטְּשָׁ֥ה עַל־אַדְמָתָ֖הּ אֵ֥ין מְקִימָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

• She has fallenנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• not riseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• againיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• virginבְּתוּלָהbethûlâh · virginH1330
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• neglectedנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
• on her landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
• Thereאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• to raiseקוּםqûm · to arise: raiseH6965

Cross-references for Amos 5:2

• Isaiah 37:22this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
• Jeremiah 14:17You will say this word to them, ‘Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.
• Jeremiah 18:13“Therefore thus says the Lord, ‘Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing.
• Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! Again you will take up your tambourines, And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.
• Lamentations 2:13How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?
• 2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
• 2 Kings 17:16They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
• Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their speech and their actions are against the Lord, To rebel against His glorious presence.
• Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities.”
• Isaiah 24:20The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.
• Isaiah 43:17Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):
• Jeremiah 51:64and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 4:20Disaster on disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, My curtains in an instant.
• Amos 7:2And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “Lord God, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, For he is small?”
• Amos 9:11“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old;

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

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Manifold
• Seek

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