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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no morerise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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For thus saith the LordGOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leaveten, to the house of Israel.
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel,Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
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Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.