1Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground with no throne, O daughter of Chaldea, for they will no longer call you tender and dainty.2Take millstones and grind flour; uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your leg, and cross the rivers.3Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your reproach will also be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will not meet any man.4Our Redeemer is the LORD of Hosts; his name is the Holy One of Israel.5Sit in silence and enter darkness, O daughter of Chaldea, for they will no longer call you lady of kingdoms.6I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion; you laid a heavy yoke on the aged.7You said, I will be lady forever, and you did not take these things to heart or remember her end.8Now hear this, you voluptuous one dwelling securely, who says in her heart, I am, and there is no one besides me; I will never be a widow or know bereavement.9These two things will come upon you suddenly, in a single day: bereavement and widowhood; in full measure they have come upon you because of your many sorceries and your powerful spells.10You trusted in your evil and said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and knowledge have led you astray, and you said in your heart, I am, and there is no one besides me.11Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know its dawn; misfortune will fall upon you, and you will not be able to avert it; devastation will come upon you suddenly, and you will not know it.12Stand now in your spells and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you can profit, perhaps you can cause terror.13You are wearied by your many counsels; let them stand now and save you, those who divide the heavens, the stargazers who make known the months from which these things come upon you.14Behold, they have become like stubble; fire has burned them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there is no coal for warming or flame to sit before.15So they have become to you, those with whom you labored, your traders from your youth; each has wandered off to his own way; there is no one to save you.