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Seek Me That You May Live

Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral (A)lament, O house of Israel:
She has fallen; she will (B)not rise again—
The (C)virgin Israel.
She lies abandoned on her land;
There is (D)none to raise her up.

For thus says Lord Yahweh,

“The city which goes forth one thousand strong
Will have one (E)hundred left,
And the one which goes forth one hundred strong
Will have (F)ten left to the house of Israel.”

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