1 Listen, nation of Israel,to my mournful message:
2 you, dearest Israel, have fallen,never to rise again—you lie deserted in your own land,with no one to help you up.
3 The Lord God has warned,“From every ten soldiersonly one will be left;from a thousand troops,only a hundred will survive.”
4 The Lord keeps saying,“Israel, turn back to meand you will live!