Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?
you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.
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 more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,
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