Amos 5:3

"“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”"

Key Reflection

Amos portrays Israel's fall as a permanent and irrevocable event, emphasizing the severity of their sin and the lack of any hope for restoration without divine intervention. This dire declaration sets the tone for God’s message of judgment and calls for repentance in the face of such utter despair.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The city that went out by a thousand -(that is, probably that sent out a thousand fighting men, as the word “went out” is often used for, “went out” to fight,) “shall have” literally, “shall retain, an hundred.” She was to be decimated. Only, the tenth alone was to be reserved alive; the nine-tenths were to be destroyed. And this, alike in larger places and in the small. The city “that went forth an hundred shall retain ten.” Smaller places escape for their obscurity, the larger from their strength and situation. One common doom was to befall all.

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