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1Come down and sit in the dust,[#Jer 46.11; 48.18; 51.33]
virgin daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground without a throne,
daughter Chaldea!
For you shall no more be called
tender and delicate.
2Take the millstones and grind meal;
remove your veil;
strip off your robe; uncover your legs;
pass through the rivers.
3Your nakedness shall be uncovered,[#Isa 34.8; 63.4; Ezek 16.37]
and your shame shall be seen.
I will take vengeance,
and I will spare no one.
4Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name—[#Isa 41.14]
is the Holy One of Israel.
5Sit in silence, and go into darkness,[#v 7 ; Isa 13.10, 19; 23.2; Dan 2.37]
daughter Chaldea!
For you shall no more be called
the mistress of kingdoms.
6I was angry with my people;[#Deut 28.50; Isa 10.13; 43.28; Zech 1.15]
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke
exceedingly heavy.
7You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”[#v 5 ; Isa 42.25; 45.21]
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.
8Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,[#Isa 32.9, 11; Zeph 2.15; Rev 18.7]
who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”—
9both these things shall come upon you[#Isa 13.16, 18; Nah 3.4; 1 Thess 5.3]
in a moment, in one day:
the loss of children and widowhood
shall come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the great power of your enchantments.
10You felt secure in your wickedness;[#v 8 ; Ps 52.7; Isa 29.15; 44.20]
you said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and your knowledge
led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
11But evil shall come upon you,[#v 9 ; Isa 57.1; 1 Thess 5.3]
which you cannot charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
which you will not be able to ward off,
and ruin shall come on you suddenly,
of which you know nothing.
12Stand fast in your enchantments[#v 9]
and your many sorceries,
with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
perhaps you may inspire terror.
13You are wearied with your many consultations;[#Isa 57.10; Dan 2.2]
let those who study the heavens
stand up and save you,
those who gaze at the stars
and at each new moon predict
what shall befall you.
14See, they are like stubble;[#Nah 1.10; Mal 4.1]
the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!
15Such to you are those with whom you have labored,[#Isa 43.13; 46.7; Rev 18.11]
who have trafficked with you from your youth;
they all wander about in their own paths;
there is no one to save you.