Amos 5:2

Amos 5:2

A Lament for Israel

1 Hear this word which I ^atake up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

2 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.

3 For thus says the Lord God:
“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

A Call to Repentance

4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
^a“Seek Me ^band live;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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virgin of Israel—the Israelite state heretofore unsubdued by foreigners. Compare Isaiah 23:12; Jeremiah 18:13; Jeremiah 31:4, Jeremiah 31:21; Lamentations 2:13; may be interpreted, Thou who wast once the "virgin daughter of Zion." Rather, "virgin" as applied to a state implies its beauty, and the delights on which it prides itself, its luxuries, power, and wealth [CALVIN].

no more rise—in the existing order of things: in the Messianic dispensation it is to rise again, according to many prophecies. Compare II Kings 6:23; II Kings 24:7, for the restricted sense of "no more."

forsaken upon her land—or, "prostrated upon," etc. (compare Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 32:4) [MAURER].

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