^{1 Ref} Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:

^{2 Ref} `Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land -- she hath no raiser up.'

^{3 Ref} For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city that is going out a thousand, Doth leave an hundred, And that which is going out an hundred, Doth leave ten to the house of Israel.