Amos 5:2
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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
In other translations
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
Hebrew words
נָפְלָהnafelahshe has fallenH5307לֹא־lo'-notH3808תוֹסִיףtosifshe will repeatH3254קוּםkumto riseH6965בְּתוּלַתbetulat[the] virgin ofH1330יִשְׂרָאֵלyisra'elIsraelH3478נִטְּשָׁהniteshahshe has been abandonedH5203עַל־'al-onH5921אַדְמָתָהּ'admatahown land herH127אֵין'einthere notH369מְקִימָהּ׃mekimah[is one who] raises up herH6965
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Jeremiah 14:17Therefore 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.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 14:1O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- Hosea 6:2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
- Isaiah 51:17-1817 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. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.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. 18 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.
- Jeremiah 51:64And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 18:13Therefore 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.Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
- Isaiah 24:20The 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.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 43:17Which 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.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:
- Jeremiah 50:32And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”
- Ezekiel 16:36-3736 Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.36 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, 37 therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
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