3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,and your disgrace shall be seen.I will take vengeance,and I will spare no one.
4 Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name—is the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit in silence, and go 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 heritage;I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy;on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
7 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”so that you did not lay these things to heartor remember their end.
8 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely,who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widowor know the loss of children”:
9 These two things shall come to youin a moment, in one day;the loss of children and widowhoodshall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceriesand the great power of your enchantments.