1 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:
2 She has fallen;Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land,with no one to raise her up.
3 For the Lord God says:The city that marches out a thousand strongwill have only a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strongwill have only ten left in the house of Israel.
4 For the Lord says to the house of Israel:Seek Me and live!
5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or journey to Beer-sheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,and Bethel will come to nothing.