Amos 5:2
New International Version
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”

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

English Standard Version
“Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.”

Berean Standard Bible
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

King James Bible
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 King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
She has fallen, she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies unnoticed on her land; There is no one to raise her up.

NASB 1995
She has fallen, she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on her land; There is none to raise her up.

NASB 1977
She has fallen, she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on her land; There is none to raise her up.

Legacy Standard Bible
She has fallen; she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies abandoned on her land; There is none to raise her up.

Amplified Bible
She has fallen, she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on her land; There is no one to raise her up.

Christian Standard Bible
She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.

American Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
You, dearest Israel, have fallen, never to rise again--you lie deserted in your own land, with no one to help you up.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The people of Israel have fallen, never to rise again. They lie abandoned in their own land. There is no one to help them.

Good News Translation
Virgin Israel has fallen, Never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, And no one helps her up.

International Standard Version
Fallen is Israel the virgin—never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

Majority Standard Bible
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

NET Bible
"The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up."

New Heart English Bible
"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."

Webster's Bible Translation
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise! she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

World English Bible
“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.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
“Fallen, not to rise again, has the virgin of Israel, "" Left on her land—she has none [to] raise [her] up.”

Young's Literal Translation
'Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land -- she hath no raiser up.'

Smith's Literal Translation
The virgin of Israel fell; she shall not add to rise: she was cast out upon her land; none raising her up.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.

New American Bible
She is fallen, to rise no more, virgin Israel; She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.

New Revised Standard Version
Fallen, no more to rise, is maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise; she is left lying on the ground, there is none to raise her up.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
She is fallen and she will not rise again; the virgin of Israel is left on the ground and there is none who raises her
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Lamentation against Israel
1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: 2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.” 3This 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.”…

Cross References
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Lamentations 1:1
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Isaiah 51:17-20
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger. / Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand. / These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? ...

Jeremiah 9:1-2
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. / If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Ezekiel 19:12-14
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them. / Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. / Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”

Micah 1:8-9
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich. / For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Zephaniah 3:1-2
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! / She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.

Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 4:30-31
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life. / For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 19:41-44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ...

Revelation 18:2
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Romans 11:11-12
I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous. / But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

Matthew 21:43
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.


Treasury of Scripture

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken on her land; there is none to raise her up.

virgin.

Isaiah 37:22
This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

is fallen.

2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 17:16
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

she shall.

Isaiah 14:21
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Isaiah 43:17
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

she is.

Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

none.

Amos 7:2-5
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small…

Amos 9:11
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Isaiah 51:17,18
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out…

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Amos 5
1. A lamentation for Israel.
4. An exhortation to repentance.
21. God rejects their hypocritical service.














Fallen is Virgin Israel
The phrase "Fallen is Virgin Israel" is a poignant declaration of Israel's spiritual and moral collapse. The term "Virgin Israel" is significant, as it denotes purity and a special, chosen status before God. In Hebrew, "virgin" (בְּתוּלַת, betulat) implies a state of innocence and potential, suggesting that Israel was once in a covenant relationship with God, set apart for His purposes. The imagery of a "fallen" virgin underscores the tragedy of Israel's unfaithfulness and the resulting judgment. Historically, this reflects the period of the divided kingdom, where Israel (the Northern Kingdom) repeatedly turned away from God, leading to its eventual downfall.

never to rise again
This phrase emphasizes the finality of Israel's judgment. The Hebrew word for "never" (לֹא, lo) is an absolute negation, indicating that the consequences of Israel's actions are irreversible. The historical context here is crucial; Amos prophesied during a time of relative prosperity in Israel, yet he foresaw the impending Assyrian conquest that would decimate the nation. Theologically, this serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of sin and the reality of divine justice. However, from a broader biblical perspective, while the nation as it was known would not rise again, God's redemptive plan through the remnant and ultimately through Christ offers hope beyond judgment.

deserted in her own land
The imagery of being "deserted in her own land" speaks to the desolation and abandonment Israel would experience. The Hebrew root for "deserted" (נָטַשׁ, natash) conveys a sense of being forsaken or left behind. This reflects the historical reality of the Assyrian exile, where the land was left desolate, and the people were scattered. Spiritually, it illustrates the consequences of forsaking God, as Israel finds itself abandoned in the very land promised to them. This serves as a powerful warning about the dangers of idolatry and self-reliance, urging believers to remain faithful to God's covenant.

with no one to lift her up
The phrase "with no one to lift her up" highlights the helplessness and hopelessness of Israel's situation. The Hebrew verb for "lift up" (קוּם, qum) often implies restoration or raising up from a fallen state. In this context, it underscores the absence of any human or divine intervention to rescue Israel from its plight. Historically, this reflects the political and military impotence of Israel in the face of Assyrian aggression. Theologically, it points to the futility of relying on human strength or alliances instead of God. Yet, within the broader biblical narrative, it also foreshadows the ultimate lifting up that comes through Christ, who offers redemption and restoration to all who turn to Him.

(2) Forsaken.--Or rather dashed to the earth. "Virgin" is a feminine designation of Israel poetically expressive of grace and beauty. Comp. the epithet "daughter of Zion," nations and cities being represented by a feminine personification. She is not annihilated, but obliterated as a nation.

Verse 2. - The virgin of Israel; i.e. the virgin Israel; so called, not as having been pure and faithful to God, but as tenderly treated and guarded from enemies (comp. Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 14:17). Is fallen (comp. 2 Samuel 1:19); she shall no more rise. This is apparently a contradiction to the promise of restoration elsewhere expressed, but is to be explained either as referring exclusively to the ten tribes, very few of whom returned from exile, and to the kingdom of Israel which was never reestablished; or, as Pseudo-Rufinus says, "Ita debemus accipere quod lugentis affectu cumulatius aetimavit illata discrimina sicque funditus appellasse deletos, quos ex majore videret parte contritos." Forsaken upon her land; better, she shall be dashed upon her own land; her own soil shall witness her ruin - that soil which was "virgin," unconquered, and her own possession.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Fallen is
נָֽפְלָה֙ (nā·p̄ə·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

Virgin
בְּתוּלַ֖ת (bə·ṯū·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride

Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

never
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

to rise
ק֔וּם (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

again.
תוֹסִ֣יף (ṯō·w·sîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

She lies abandoned
נִטְּשָׁ֥ה (niṭ·ṭə·šāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5203: To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

her land,
אַדְמָתָ֖הּ (’aḏ·mā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 127: Ground, land

with no
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

one to raise her up.”
מְקִימָֽהּ׃ (mə·qî·māh)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand


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