1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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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.”