1. Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
2. “Fallen, no more to rise,is the virgin Israel;forsaken on her land,with none to raise her up.”
3. For thus says the Lord God:“The city that went out a thousandshall have a hundred left,and that which went out a hundredshall have ten leftto the house of Israel.”
4. For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;
5. but do not seek Bethel,and do not enter into Gilgalor cross over to Beersheba;for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,and Bethel shall come to nothing.”