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 called tender 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 exposed and 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 called queen of kingdoms.
6. I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
7. You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.
8. “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’
9. Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.
10. You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’