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1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you will no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [you as] a man.
4 [As for] our redeemer, the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you will no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7 And you said, I will be a lady for ever: [so] that you did not lay these [things] to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, [you that are] given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in your heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I will not sit [as] a widow, neither will I know the loss of children:
9 But these two [things] will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they will come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of your enchantments.
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 none else beside me.
11 Therefore will evil come upon you; you will not know from where it rises: and mischief will fall upon you; you will not be able to put it off: and desolation will come upon you suddenly, [which] you will not know.
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have laboured from your youth; if so be you will be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from [these things] that will come upon you.
14 Behold, they will be as stubble; the fire will burn them; they will not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there will] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.
15 Thus will they be to you with whom you have laboured, [even] your merchants, from your youth: they will wander every one to his quarter; none will save you.