Amos 5:2

5:2 “The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again.

She is abandoned on her own land

with no one to help her get up.”

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.


tn Or “young lady.” The term “Israel” is an appositional genitive.

tn Or “with no one to lift her up.”

tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.