Bible Strands
Amos 5:2
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Amos pronounces this lamentation to the house of Israel, situated between a call to hear the oracle and a description of cascading military defeat.
The words — נָֽפְלָה (na.fe.Lah) means "she has fallen," and the construction לֹֽא־תוֹסִ֣יף ק֑וּם (lo'- to.Sif Kum) literally renders "she will not again rise."
The thread — The image of a fallen virgin Israel recurs in Jeremiah 14:17, while the trajectory of national collapse and the subsequent summons to return appears in Hosea 14:1 and the historical account of Assyrian conquest in 2 Kings 15:29.
Why it lands — The verse states an irreversible national collapse and divine abandonment, requiring the reader to recognize the finality of the judgment before considering any restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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.
- Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- 2 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.
- 2 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.
- Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 24:20 The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
- Isaiah 37:22 this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
- Isaiah 43:17 who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
- Isaiah 51:17 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.