Amos 5:1-2

Easy-to-Read Version

5 People of Israel, listen to this song. This funeral song is about you.

²The virgin^[a] of Israel has fallen.
She will not get up anymore.
She was left alone, lying in the dirt.
There is no one to lift her up.

Amos 5:2 virgin The Hebrew word can mean “a woman who has not had sexual relations with anyone,” but here, it means the city of Samaria.

Amos 5:1-2

New International Version

5 Hear this word, Israel, this lament^(A) I take up concerning you:

²“Fallen is Virgin^(B) Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.^(C)”

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)