47 lines
2.5 KiB
Markdown
47 lines
2.5 KiB
Markdown
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## Lament for Babylon
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###### 1
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"Come 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 shall no longer be called tender and delicate.
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###### 2
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Take the millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
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###### 3
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Your nakedness will be uncovered; Your reproach also will be seen; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man."
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###### 4
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Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
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###### 5
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"Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.
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###### 6
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I was furious with My people; I profaned My inheritance And gave them into your hand. You did not show compassion to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
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###### 7
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Yet you said, 'I will be a queen forever.' These things you did not put on your heart Nor remember the outcome of them.
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###### 8
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"So now, hear this, you sensual one, Who sits securely, Who says in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.'
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###### 9
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But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great might of your spells.
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###### 10
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You felt secure in your evil and said, 'No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge have turned you _astray_; So you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.'
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###### 11
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But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly.
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###### 12
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"Stand _fast_ now in your spells And in your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit; Perhaps you may cause trembling.
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###### 13
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You are wearied with your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who behold _visions_ by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.
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###### 14
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Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by _Nor_ a fire to sit before!
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###### 15
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Thus they have become for you, those among whom you have labored, Who have traded with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.
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