1 “Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Kasdim.For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind flour.Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,and wade through the rivers.
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.Yes, your shame will be seen.I will take vengeance,and 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,daughter of the Kasdim.For you shall no longer be calledthe 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.You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,nor did you remember the results.