1. ‘Go down, sit in the dust,Virgin Daughter Babylon;sit on the ground without a throne,queen city of the Babylonians.No more will you be calledtender or delicate.
2. Take millstones and grind flour;take off your veil.Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,and wade through the streams.
3. Your nakedness will be exposedand your shame uncovered.I will take vengeance;I will spare no one.’
4. Our Redeemer – the Lord Almighty is his name –is the Holy One of Israel.
5. ‘Sit in silence, go into darkness,queen city of the Babylonians;no more will you be calledqueen of kingdoms.
6. I was angry with my peopleand desecrated my inheritance;I gave them into your hand,and you showed them no mercy.Even on the agedyou laid a very heavy yoke.
7. You said, “I am for ever –the eternal queen!”But you did not consider these thingsor reflect on what might happen.