5. “Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.
6. “I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
7. “And you said, ‘I am mistress forever,’ so that you did not take these matters to heart, and did not remember the latter end of them.
8. “And now, hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who dwells complacently, who says in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me. I do not sit as a widow, nor do I know the loss of children.’