Amos 5:2

Hebrew Bible

1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel: 2The 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.” 3 The Sovereign Lord says this:“The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”

Isaiah 24:20

Hebrew Bible

19 The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently. 20 The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again. 21 At that time the Lord will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth.

 Notes and References

"... in Isaiah 24, the identity of “the city of chaos” (literally, “the city of formlessness”; compare Genesis 1:2) is ambivalent. Some interpreters propose that it refers to Jerusalem, whereas others read it as Babylon. Again, in the former case, the repeatedly occurring word ץרא may have meant the “land” of Judah. Once we designate this word as the “land” of Judah, the echoes of certain key words cohere well. Note the intertextual allusion of Isaiah 1 in 24:20 ... Note also the verbatim allusion of Amos 5:2 (“fallen, no more to rise, is maiden Israel” in Isaiah 24:20 (“it falls, and will not rise again”) ..."

Kim, Hyun Chul Paul "City, Earth, and Empire in Isaiah 24–27" in Hibbard, James Todd, and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, (ed.) Formation and Intertextuality in Isaiah (p. 36) Society of Biblical Literature, 2013

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