1. Listen to this funeral song that I sing about you, people of Israel.
2. “Israel has fallen.It will not rise up again.It was left alone in the land.There is no one to lift it up.”
3. This is what the Lord God says:“If 1,000 soldiers leave a city,only 100 will return.If 100 soldiers leave a city,only 10 will return.”
4. This is what the Lord says to the nation of Israel:“Come to me and live.
5. But do not look in Bethel.Do not go to Gilgal,and do not go down to Beersheba.The people of Gilgal will be taken away as captives.And Bethel will become nothing.”