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Third Pronouncement of Punishment

Hear this word which I take up as a dirge against you, O house of Israel:

Fallen, no more to rise
    is maiden Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with no one to raise her up.

For thus says the Lord God:

The city that went out with a thousand
    will be left with a hundred,
and the one that went out with a hundred
    will be left with ten for the house of Israel.

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Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she [a]is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up. For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:2 Or, lieth forsaken