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¹ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.² Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.³ Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will not spare man.⁴ Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.⁵ Sit silent, and get into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.⁶ I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.

⁷ And you said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither remembered the latter end thereof.⁸ Now therefore hear this, you that are given to pleasures, that sit securely, that say in your heart, I am, and there is no other besides 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; in their full measure they shall come on you, in the multitude of your witchcraft, and the great abundance of your magic words.¹⁰ For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other besides me.¹¹ Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you do not know.¹² Stand now with your magic words, and with the multitude of your witchcraft, wherein you have labored from your youth; perhaps you shall be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail.¹³ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let the astrologers stand up now and save you, those observing the stars for determining your horoscopes.¹⁴ Look, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be charcoal for their bread, nor a fire to sit before.¹⁵ Thus shall the things be to you wherein you have labored: those that have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.