| New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
| 1“Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate. | 1"Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive. |
| 2Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view. | 2Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers. |
| 3You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.” | 3Your nakedness will be exposed, and your disgrace will also be seen. I'll take vengeance, and I will spare no mortal. |
| 4Our Redeemer, whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel. | 4"Our Redeemer— the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name— is the Holy One of Israel. |
| 5“O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms. | 5"Sit silent, and enter into the darkness, you daughter of the Chaldeans; for no more will they call you Queen of Kingdoms. |
| 6For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly. | 6I was angry with my people, and I desecrated my heritage, and gave them into your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the aged you laid your yoke most heavily. |
| 7You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences. | 7You said, 'I will always continue—Queen forever!' You didn't take these things into your thinking, nor did you think about their consequences. |
| 8“Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’ | 8"Now hear this, you wanton creature, lounging with no cares, and saying to herself: 'I am the one, and there will be none besides me; I won't live as a widow, nor will I see the loss of children.' |
| 9Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic. | 9Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells." |
| 10“You felt secure in your wickedness. ‘No one sees me,’ you said. But your ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ have led you astray, and you said, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.’ | 10"You trusted in your own knowledge. You said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge have misled you. You said in your heart, 'I am the one, and there will be none besides me.' |
| 11So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won’t be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will strike you suddenly, one for which you are not prepared. | 11"But disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will not be able to ward off; and devastation will come upon you suddenly, and you won't anticipate it. |
| 12“Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they will do you some good. Maybe they can make someone afraid of you. | 12"But stand up now with your spells and your many incantations, at which you have labored from your childhood until today, |
| 13All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds. | 13according to your multiple schemes. Let them stand up now— those who conjure the heavens and gaze at the stars, predicting at the new moons— and save you from what is about to happen to them. |
| 14But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth. | 14"See, they are just like stubble; fire burns them up. They could not even save themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals for warming oneself, no fire to sit by. |
| 15And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own ways, turning a deaf ear to your cries. | 15So will they be to you—those with whom you toiled and did business since your childhood— they wander about, each in his own direction; there is not one who can save you. |
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