| 1 | Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. |
| 2 | Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. |
| 3 | Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man. |
| 4 | As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. |
| 5 | Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. |
| 6 | I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into your hand: you didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid thy yoke. |
| 7 | And you saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. |
| 8 | Therefore hear now this, you that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: |
| 9 | But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments. |
| 10 | For you have trusted in thy wickedness: you have said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me. |
| 11 | Therefore shall evil come upon thee; you shall not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know. |
| 12 | Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which you have laboured from thy youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. |
| 13 | Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon thee. |
| 14 | Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. |
| 15 | Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. |
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