1. Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a kinah (lamentation), O Bais Yisroel.
2. The Betulat Yisroel is fallen; she shall no more rise; she is forsaken in her own land; there is none to raise her up.
3. For thus saith Adonoi Hashem: The city that went out by a thousand will be left a hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred will be left ten, for Bais Yisroel.
4. For thus saith Hashem unto Bais Yisroel: Seek ye Me, and live;
5. But seek not Beit-El, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer Sheva; for Gilgal shall surely go into golus, and Beit-El shall come to naught.