1 Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.
2 The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live.