Comedown, and sit in the dust, O virgindaughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thoushalt no more be calledtender and delicate.
I was wrothwith my people, I havepollutedmineinheritance, and giventhemintothinehand: thoudidstshewthem no mercy; upon the ancienthastthouveryheavilylaid thy yoke.
Thereforehear now this, thouthat art given to pleasures, thatdwellestcarelessly, thatsayest in thineheart, I am, and noneelsebeside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neithershall I know the loss of children:
But these two thingsshallcome to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: theyshallcomeuponthee in theirperfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the greatabundance of thineenchantments.
For thouhasttrusted in thy wickedness: thouhastsaid, Noneseeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hathpervertedthee; and thouhastsaid in thineheart, I am, and noneelsebeside me.
Thereforeshallevilcomeuponthee; thoushalt not knowfromwhence it riseth: and mischiefshallfalluponthee; thoushalt not be able to put it off: and desolationshallcomeupontheesuddenly, whichthoushalt not know.
Stand now withthineenchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, whereinthouhastlabouredfrom thy youth; if so be thoushalt be able to profit, if so be thoumayestprevail.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthlyprognosticators, stand up, and savetheefromthesethingsthatshallcomeuponthee.
Behold, theyshall be as stubble; the fireshallburnthem; theyshall not deliverthemselvesfrom the power of the flame: thereshall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.