2
Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!
3
People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me."
4
The holy God of Israel sets us free - his name is the Lord Almighty.
5
The Lord says to Babylon, "Sit in silence and darkness; no more will they call you the queen of nations!
6
I was angry with my people; I treated them as no longer mine: I put them in your power, and you showed them no mercy; even the aged you treated harshly.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.