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¹ Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans; for they shall not again call you tender and delicate.² Take millstones and grind meal; uncover your veil; strip off the skirt; uncover the leg; pass over rivers.³ Your nakedness shall be uncovered; yea, your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance and I will not meet a man.⁴ Our Redeemer; Jehovah of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel.⁵ Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall no more call you the mistress of kingdoms.⁶ I was angry with My people; I defiled My inheritance and gave them into your hand. You gave them no mercy; you made your yoke on the aged very heavy.

⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever, until you did not set these things on your heart, and did not remember its end.⁸ Now, then, hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am , and none else is ; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.⁹ But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; according to completeness they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the multitude of your great spells.¹⁰ For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge; it is turning you back, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is .¹¹ For this, evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to cover it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know.¹² Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may cause quaking.¹³ You are exhausted by your many plans; let those dividing the heavens stand up now and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.¹⁴ Behold, they are as stubble; the fire burns them; they shall not save their soul from the flame's hand; there is no coal to warm them; nor fire, to sit before it.¹⁵ So they are to you with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth; each one wanders to his own way; no one saves you.