Amos 5:1-3

The Voice

5 Hear this message I sing about you;
    it is my dirge for you, people of Israel:
² The virgin Israel has fallen,
    fallen never to rise again;
Forsaken in her land, forgotten where she lies.
    No one is there to help her rise again.
³ So says the Eternal Lord:

Eternal One: The city that sent out a thousand soldiers
        will see only a hundred of them survive;
    And the town that sent out a hundred
        will see only ten remain for the house of Israel.