“Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.”
Amos 5:1 (KJV) |
Amos 5:1
From Amos 5, in the Book of Amos (Old Testament).
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.