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Mourners stand in an empty city square near abandoned shields.
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Amos 5:1-3

A Lament over Israel

Let Justice Roll · Amos 5

Story guide: Virgin Israel is a national poetic personification. The image does not depict a particular fallen woman.

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1Hear this word that I am taking up over you as a lament, O house of Israel:

2Fallen, virgin Israel will not rise again; abandoned on her own land, she has no one to raise her up.

3For thus says the Lord GOD: The city that marches out a thousand will have a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred will have ten left, for the house of Israel.

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