Amos 5:2
The virgin Israel has fallen; 1 she will rise no more; 1 she is forsaken on her land; 1 there is no one to raise her up. 1
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1Hear this word that I take up as a lament over you, house of Israel. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 17:16They ignored all the commandments of Yahweh their God. They made cast metal figures of two calves to worship. They made an Asherah pole, and they worshiped all the stars of the heavens and Baal.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare your slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their ancestors, 1 so they will not rise up and possess the earth and fill the whole world with cities. 1
Isaiah 37:22this is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him: 1 “The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs you to scorn; 1 the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at you. 1
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, 1 you who have drunk out of the hand of Yahweh from the bowl of his anger; 1 you who have drunk out of the bowl, down to the dregs from the cup of staggering. 1
Jeremiah 4:20Disaster follows after disaster; for all the land lies in ruins. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. 1 It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares. 1
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 →