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Amós 5:2
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Ha caído, no volverá a levantarse la virgen de Israel; abandonada yace en su tierra, no hay quien la levante.
Cay� la virgen de Israel, y no podr� levantarse ya m�s; fue dejada sobre su tierra, no hay quien la levante.
Cay� la virgen de Israel, no m�s podr� levantarse; dejada fue sobre su tierra, no hay quien la levante.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
virgin: Isaiah 37:22, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 18:13, Jeremiah 31:4, Lamentations 2:13
is fallen: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:16, Isaiah 3:8, Hosea 14:1
she shall: Isaiah 14:21, Isaiah 24:20, Isaiah 43:17, Jeremiah 51:64
she is: Jeremiah 4:20
none: Amos 7:2-5, Amos 9:11, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:18, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 30:12-14, Lamentations 1:16-19, Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:37, Hosea 6:2
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:21 - The virgin 2 Kings 21:14 - And I will Proverbs 24:16 - but Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Jeremiah 8:4 - Shall they Hosea 5:5 - fall in
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The virgin of Israel is fallen,.... The kingdom of Israel, so called, because it had never been subdued, or become subject to a foreign power, since it was a kingdom; or because, considered in its ecclesiastic state, it had been espoused to the Lord as a chaste virgin; and perhaps this may be ironically spoken, and refers to its present adulterate and degenerated state worshipping the calves at Dan and Bethel; or else because of its wealth and riches and the splendour and gaiety in which it appeared; but now, as it had fallen into sin and iniquity, it should quickly fall by it, and on account of it, into ruin and misery; and because of the certainty of it it is represented as if it was already fallen:
she shall no more rise; and become a kingdom again, as it never has as yet, since the ten tribes were carried away captive by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, to which calamity this prophecy refers, The Targum is,
"shall not rise again this year;''
very impertinently; better Kimchi and Ben Melech, for a long time; since as they think, and many others, that the ten tribes shall return again, as may seem when all Israel shall be converted and saved, and repossess their own land; see Hosea 1:10. Abendana produces a passage out of Zohar, in which these words are interpreted, that the virgin of Israel should not rise again of herself, she not having power to prevail over her enemies; but God will raise her up out of the dust, when he shall raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, who shall reign in future time over all the tribes together, as it is said in Amos 9:11;
she is forsaken upon her land; by her people, her princes, and her God; or prostrate on the ground, as the Targum; she was cast upon the ground, and dashed to pieces by the enemy as an earthen vessel, and there left, her ruin being irrecoverable; so whatever is cast and scattered, or dashed to pieces on the ground, and left, is expressed by the word here used, as Jarchi observes:
[there is] none to raise her up: her princes and people are either slain by the sword, famine, and pestilence, or carried captive, and so can yield her no assistance; her idols whom she worshipped cannot, and her God she forsook will not.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
She hath fallen, she shall rise no more, the virgin of Israel; she hath been dashed down upon her land, there is none to raise her up - Such is the dirge, a dirge like that of David over Saul and Jonathan, over what once was lovely and mighty, but which had perished. He speaks of all as past, and that, irremediably. Israel is one of the things which had been, and which would never again be. He calls her tenderly, “the virgin of Israel,” not as having retained her purity or her fealty to God; still less, with human boastfulness, as though she had as yet been unsubdued by man. For she had been faithless to God, and had been many times conquered by man. Nor does it even seem that God so calls her, because He once espoused her to Himself For isaiah so calls Babylon. But Scripture seems to speak of cities, as women, because in women tenderness is most seen; they are most tenderly guarded; they, when pure, are most lovely; they, when corrupted, are most debased.
Hence , “God says on the one hand, “I remember thee, the love of thine espousals” Jeremiah 2:2; on the other, “Hear, thou harlot, the word of the Lord” Ezekiel 16:35. When He claims her faithfulness He calls her, betrothed.” Again , “when He willeth to signify that a city or nation has been as tenderly loved and anxiously guarded, whether by Himsclf or by others, He calleth it “virgin,” or when lie would indicate its beauty and lovely array. Isaiah saith, ‘come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon’ Isaiah 47:1, that is, thou who livedest before in all delicacies, like a virgin under the shelter of her home. For it follows, ‘for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.’” More pitiable, for their tenderness and delicacy, is the distress of women. And so he pictures her as already fallen, “dashed” (the word imitates the sound) to the earth “upon her own ground.” An army may be lost, and the nation recover. She was “dashed down upon her own ground.” In the abode of her strength, in the midst of her resources, in her innermost retreat, she should fall. In herself, she fell powerless. And he adds, she has “no one to raise her up;” none to have ruth upon her; image of the judgment on a lost soul, when the terrible sentence is spoken and none can intercede! “She shall not rise again.” As she fell, she did not again rise. The prophet beholds beyond the eighty-five years which separated the prosperity under Jeroboam II from her captivity. As a people, he says, she should be restored no more; nor was she.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 5:2. The virgin of Israel — The kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, which were carried into captivity; and are now totally lost in the nations of the earth.
