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1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel: 2 The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.| 3 The sovereign LORD says this: |The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.| 4 The LORD says this to the family of Israel: |Seek me so you can live! 5 Do not seek Bethel! Do not visit Gilgal! Do not journey down to Beer Sheba! For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile; and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.| 6 Seek the LORD so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph's family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel. Amos 5:1-6, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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