1 Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral song which I sing over you:
2 Virgin Israel has fallen,Never to rise again!She lies abandoned on the ground,And no one helps her up.
3 The Sovereign Lord says, “A city in Israel sends out a thousand soldiers, but only a hundred return; another city sends out a hundred, but only ten come back.”
4 The Lord says to the people of Israel, “Come to me, and you will live.