1. Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2. The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3. For thus says the Lord GOD;
4. For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel,
5. 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 nothing.