5 “Sit in hsilence, and go into darkness,

O daughter of the Chaldeans;

iFor you shall no longer be called

The Lady of Kingdoms.

6 jI was angry with My people;

kI have profaned My inheritance,

And given them into your hand.

You showed them no mercy;

lOn the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

7 And you said, ‘I shall be ma lady forever,’

So that you did not ntake these things to heart,

oNor remember the latter end of them.

8 “Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,

Who dwell securely,

Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;

I shall not sit as a widow,

Nor shall I know the loss of children’;

9 But these two things shall come to you

pIn a moment, in one day:

The loss of children, and widowhood.

They shall come upon you in their fullness

Because of the multitude of your sorceries,

For the great abundance of your enchantments.