"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."
The virgin of Israel is fallen ..." The use of the present tense here is prophetic, indicating that the projected overthrow of the kingdom was as certain as if it had already occurred.  This device called "the prophetic tense" was widely used throughout the Hebrew scriptures.  Likewise, in the New Testament, the final overthrow of Babylon the great is given in words very similar to these  (Revelation 18:2), "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great."  The fact that the figure employed here is that of a virgin "does not indicate that this is (or will be) the first time that Israel is defeated,"[5] nor that the nation is in any sense righteous.  "It is a feature related to the representation of Israel as a beautiful young woman."[6]  "The death of a virgin, or of a man who had no children, was regarded as peculiarly sad."[7]