Amos 5:1-3

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Lamentation for Israel

5 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,^(A) house of Israel:

²She has fallen;
Virgin Israel^(B) will never rise again.^(C)
She lies abandoned on her land
with no one to raise her up.^(D)

³For the Lord God says:

The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left,^(E)
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left^(F) in the house of Israel.

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