1. “Come down and sit in the dust, O maiden daughter of Baḇel. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no more do they call you tender and delicate.
2. “Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, pass through rivers.
3. “Let your nakedness be uncovered, let your shame also be exposed. I take vengeance, and meet no man.”
4. Our Redeemer, יהוה of hosts is His Name, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
5. “Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.
6. “I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
7. “And you said, ‘I am mistress forever,’ so that you did not take these matters to heart, and did not remember the latter end of them.
8. “And now, hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who dwells complacently, who says in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me. I do not sit as a widow, nor do I know the loss of children.’
9. “Both of these come to you suddenly, in one day: the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in completeness, because of your many witchcrafts, for your numerous great potent spells.