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1 Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel: 2 The people of Israel have fallen, never to rise again. They lie abandoned in their own land. There is no one to help them. 3 This is what the Almighty LORD says: The city that sends 1,000 troops off to war will have [only] 100 left. The one that sends 100 troops off to war will have [only] 10 left for the nation of Israel. 4 This is what the LORD says to the nation of Israel: Search for me and live! 5 But don't search [for me] at Bethel. Don't go to Gilgal. Don't travel to Beersheba. Gilgal will certainly go into exile. Bethel will come to nothing. 6 Search for the LORD and live! If you don't, he will spread like a fire through the house of Joseph and burn it down. Bethel will have no one to put it out. Amos 5:1-6, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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