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 thou shalt no more be called
tender and delicate.
02 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover
thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh,
pass over the rivers.
03 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy
shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I
will not meet thee as a man.
04 As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his
name, the Holy One of Israel.
05 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more
be called, The lady of kingdoms.
06 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted
mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand:
thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient
hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
07 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever:
so that thou didst not lay these things to thy
heart, neither didst remember the latter end of
it.
08 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given
to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that
sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside
me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I
know the loss of children:
09 But these two things shall come to thee in a
moment in one day, the loss of children, and
widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine
enchantments.
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10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou
hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy
knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast
said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside
me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou
shalt not know from whence it riseth: and
mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be
able to put it off: and desolation shall come
upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with
the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast
laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be
able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy
counsels. Let now the astrologers, the
stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand
up, and save thee from these things that shall
come upon thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they shall not deliver
themselves from the power of the flame: there
shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit
before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou
hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy
youth: they shall wander every one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.
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