Amos 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

virgin. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the house of Israel,. young girl who is beloved, as in Hosea. Compare Isaiah 37:22; Isaiah 47:1.Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 46:11, &c.

she. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Syriac and Vulgate, read "and shall not": i.e. cannot rise again.

land. soil. Hebrew. 'adamah.

there. Some codices read "and [there]".

Amos 5:2

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