1. “Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne,Daughter Chaldea!For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
2. Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil,strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,wade through the streams.
3. Your nakedness will be uncovered,and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance;I will spare no one.
4. The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer; Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
5. “Daughter Chaldea,sit in silence and go into darkness.For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.
6. I was angry with My people;I profaned My possession,and I placed them under your control.You showed them no mercy;you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
7. You said, ‘I will be the mistress forever.’You did not take these things to heartor think about their outcome.