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 Living Translation (NLT)“The virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, with no one to help her up.”

Context of Amos 5:2

1Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel: 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. 3For thus says the Lord God: “The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.” 4For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek 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 word which the Lord has spoken concerning him: “The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back!
• Jeremiah 14:17“Therefore you shall say this word to them: ‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.
• Jeremiah 18:13Therefore thus says the Lord: “Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
• Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
• Lamentations 2:13How shall I console you? To what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide 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 took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
• 2 Kings 17:16So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings Are against the Lord, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
• Hosea 14:1O Israel, return to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities.”
• Isaiah 24:20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall totter like a hut; Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not rise again.
• Isaiah 43:17Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):
• Jeremiah 51:64Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 4:20Destruction upon destruction is cried, For the whole land is plundered. Suddenly my tents are plundered, And my curtains in a moment.
• Amos 7:2And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: “O Lord God, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!”
• Amos 9:11“On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will 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
• 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