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For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
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Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
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"Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up."
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For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
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For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live;
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but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing."
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