1 Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;She will rise no more.She lies forsaken on her land;There is no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God:“The city that goes out by a thousandShall have a hundred left,And that which goes out by a hundredShall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live;