1 Listen to this funeral song that I sing about you, people of Israel.
2 “The young girl Israel has fallen,and she will not rise up again.She was left alone in her own land,and there is no one to help her up.”
3 This is what the Lord God says:“If a thousand soldiers leave a city,only a hundred will return;if a hundred soldiers leave a city,only ten will return.”
4 This is what the Lord says to the nation of Israel:“Come to me and live.
5 But do not look in Bethelor go to Gilgal,and do not go down to Beersheba.The people of Gilgal will be taken away as captives,and Bethel will become nothing.”