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Mourning for Fallen Israel

Listen to this word that I am raising against you as a lament,[a] O house of Israel:

Virgin Israel has fallen, and she will not rise again.
    She is abandoned on her own soil.
    There is no one to lift her up.
For this is what the Lord God says:
    A city that marches out with a thousand will have a hundred left.
    A city that marches out with a hundred will have ten left for the house of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:1 Or sad song

A Lament and Call to Repentance

Hear this word, Israel, this lament(A) I take up concerning you:

“Fallen is Virgin(B) Israel,
    never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
    with no one to lift her up.(C)

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel:

“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
    will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
    will have only ten left.(D)

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