Amos 5:2
“Fallen, not to rise again, has the virgin of Israel, || Left on her land—she has none [to] raise [her] up.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Hear this word that I am bearing to you, || A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Cross References
2 Kings 17:16And they forsake all the commands of their God YHWH, and make a molten image for themselves—two calves, and make an Asherah, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Ba‘al,
Isaiah 14:21Prepare slaughter for his sons; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, || They do not rise, nor have possessed the land, || Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.
Isaiah 37:22this [is] the word that YHWH spoke concerning him: Trampled on you, laughed at you, || Has the virgin daughter of Zion, || The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken the head behind you.
Isaiah 51:17Stir yourself, stir yourself, rise, Jerusalem, || You who have drunk from the hand of YHWH || The cup of His fury, || The goblet, the cup of trembling, you have drunk, || You have wrung out.
Jeremiah 4:20Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, || For all the land has been spoiled, || My tents have suddenly been spoiled, || In a moment—my curtains.
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows, || It has come into our palaces, || To cut off the suckling from outside, || Young men from the broad places.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:2-4
Invitations and Warnings. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord God ; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth… Read the whole commentary →