1. Descend, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground. There is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called delicate and tender.
2. Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
3. Your disgrace will be revealed, and your shame will be seen. I will seize vengeance, and no man will withstand me.
4. Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5. Sit in silence, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called the noblewoman of kingdoms.
6. I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.
7. And you have said: "I will be a noblewoman forever." You have not set these things upon your heart, and you have not remembered your end.