Amos 5:2
1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
- 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.
- WEB
- “The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”
- ASV
- The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
- DARBY
- The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
- BLB
- “She has fallen; she will not again rise, the virgin of Israel—[for] she lies forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
- ÅB
- Hun er falt, hun skal aldri reise seg mere, jomfruen Israel; hun ligger nedkastet på sin egen grunn, det er ingen som reiser henne opp.
- OTB
- "Falt er Jomfru Israel,
hun skal ikke reise seg mer.
Hun ligger forlatt på sitt land;
det er ingen som løfter henne opp." - B1930
- Hun er falt, hun skal aldri reise sig mere, jomfruen Israel; hun ligger nedkastet på sin egen grunn, det er ingen som reiser henne op.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Read in contextHosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
Read in context2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Read in context2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
Read in contextJeremiah 30:12–14
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
Read in contextLamentations 1:16–19
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:36–37
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
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