¹Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

¹Stopi doli in sedi v prah, o devica, hči babilonska! Sedi na tla, brez prestola, hči Kaldejcev! kajti ne boš se več imenovala nežna in mehkužna.

²Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

²Vzemi mlinske kamene in melji moko; odgrni zastor svoj, vzdigni vlečke, odkrij stegno, gazi skozi reke.

³Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

³Odkrije se nagota tvoja, videla se bo tudi sramota tvoja. Maščeval se bom in ne prizanesem nobenemu človeku. –

⁴As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

⁴Naš odrešenik, GOSPOD nad vojskami je ime njegovo, Svetnik Izraelov. –

⁵Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

⁵Sédi molčé in pojdi v temo, hči Kaldejcev! zakaj ne boš se več imenovala Gospa kraljestev.

⁶I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

⁶Razsrdil sem se bil zoper ljudstvo svoje, oskrunil sem dediščino svojo in dal sem jih tebi v pest: nisi jim izkazala nobene milosti, celó starcu si nakladala težki jarem svoj silno.

⁷And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

⁷In rekla si: Večno bodem gospa! in tako nisi tega premislila v srcu, pomislila nisi konca temu.

⁸Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

⁸Sedaj torej čuj to, razkošnica, ki brez skrbi sediš in praviš v srcu svojem: Jaz sem, in nobene več ni razen mene; ne bom sedela vdova in okusila ne bom brezotročnosti!

⁹But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

⁹Ali prigodi se ti oboje nagloma, v isti dan: brezotročnost in vdovstvo; docela te zadene oboje navzlic obilemu vražarstvu tvojemu, vkljub silno številnemu čaranju tvojemu.

¹⁰For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

¹⁰Zakaj ti si se zanašala na hudobnost svojo, govorila si: Nihče me ne vidi. Modrost tvoja in vednost tvoja, ti sta te premotili; in govorila si v srcu svojem: Jaz sem, in nobene druge več razen mene!

¹¹Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

¹¹Zatorej te zadene nesreča, ki je ne boš znala s čaranjem odpraviti, zgrne se nadte poguba, ki je ne boš mogla odvrniti, in zadene te nagloma pokončanje, ki ga še ne slutiš.

¹²Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

¹²Postavi se, pravim, s čaranjem svojim in z množino svojega vražarstva, v katerem si se trudila od mladih nog svojih, če boš morda imela kaj uspeha, če morebiti koga prestrašiš!

¹³Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

¹³Opešala si vsled tolikega posvetovanja svojega. Postavijo naj se torej razkladalci nebes, ogledovalci zvezd, ki oznanjajo na mesece, kar te bo zadelo, in naj te rešijo!

¹⁴Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

¹⁴Glej, kakor strnišče so, ogenj jih požge, ne rešijo se sami plamena; ne ostane od njih žerjavice, da bi se človek grel, ne ognja, da bi mu sedel nasproti.Tako ti bodo oni, za katere si se trudila, s katerimi si kupčevala od mladosti svoje: vsak bo blodil na svojo stran, nihče te ne reši.

¹⁵Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

¹⁵Tako ti bodo oni, za katere si se trudila, s katerimi si kupčevala od mladosti svoje: vsak bo blodil na svojo stran, nihče te ne reši.