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.
8. ‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,lounging in your securityand saying to yourself,“I am, and there is none besides me.I will never be a widowor suffer the loss of children.”