1 Hear this word which I take up as a dirge against you, O house of Israel:
2 Fallen, no more to riseis maiden Israel;forsaken on her land,with no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God: The city that went out with a thousandwill be left with a hundred,and the one that went out with a hundredwill be left with ten for the house of Israel.
4 Indeed, thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live!
5 But do not seek Bethel,and do not enter into Gilgalor cross over to Beersheba;for Gilgal will surely go into captivity,and Bethel shall be no more.
6 Seek the Lord and live,or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph,and it will devour Bethel,with no one to quench it.