this is the word Jehovah has spoken about him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, mocking you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken the head behind you.
Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall not again call you tender and delicate.
And you shall speak this Word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.
The Lord has trampled all my mighty ones in my midst. He called a gathering against me to crush my young men. As a winepress, the Lord trod the virgin daughter of Judah.
Judah went captive from affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between the straits.
They cried out to them, Turn aside! Unclean! Turn aside, turn aside! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled. They said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.
For the ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will be pained and turn back and be furious against the holy covenant. And he will work, and he will return and heed the forsakers of the holy covenant.
And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and they shall humble Assyria, and they shall humble Eber, and he also shall come to destruction forever.
And Jehovah gave them into Israel’s hand, and they struck them, and pursued them to the great Sidon, and to the burning waters, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. And they struck them until they did not leave a survivor to them.
And the sound of harpers, and of musicians, and flutists, and of trumpeters will not still be heard in you, not ever! And every craftsman of every craft will not still be found in you, not ever! And the sound of a mill will not still be heard in you, not ever!