1. Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
2. “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.”
3. For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4. For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;