1 GLT “Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans, for no longer will they call you dainty and delicate. BSB BSB: “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
2 GLT Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off{ your} train. Uncover{ your} legs, cross the streams. BSB BSB: Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
3 GLT Your nakedness will be uncovered; yes, your shame will be seen: I shall take vengeance and not spare a man.” BSB BSB: Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
4 GLT Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts{ is} his name, the Holy One of Israel. BSB BSB: Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.
5 GLT “Sit silently and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms. BSB BSB: “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
6 GLT I was angry with my people; I defiled my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; on the old you weighed down your great yoke. BSB BSB: I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
7 GLT And you said,“I shall forever be mistress.” Yet you did not take these to your heart, did not remember its end. BSB BSB: You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
8 GLT “And now, hear this, overindulged, who dwell in confidence, who say in your heart,‘{ It is} I, and none else; I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know bereavement.’ BSB BSB: So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
9 GLT But these two{ things} will come to you{ in a} moment, in one day: bereavement and widowhood. As their fullness they will come on you despite the abundance of your sorceries, despite the great power of your spells. BSB BSB: These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
10 GLT But you trusted in your wickedness; you said,‘No one sees me;’ your wisdom and your knowledge, this led you astray, but you say in your heart,‘{ It is} I and none else.’ BSB BSB: You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
11 GLT And disaster will come on you; you will not know its dawn. And ruin will fall on you; you will not be able to avert it. And desolation will come on you suddenly, you not knowing. BSB BSB: But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
14 GLT Behold, they will become like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They will not rescue their souls from the hand of the flame. There are no coals to warm them{ or} light to sit by! BSB BSB: Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
15 GLT Thus they have become for you, with whom you labored, your merchants from your youth,{ each} man wandering in his direction; there is no rescuer.” BSB BSB: This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
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