Isaiah 47:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ Babylon, be silent!
    Sit in the dark.
No longer will nations
    accept you as their queen.
⁶ I was angry with my people.
So I let you take their land
    and bring disgrace on them.
You showed them no mercy,
but were especially cruel
    to those who were old.
⁷ You thought that you
    would be queen forever.
You didn't care what you did;
it never entered your mind
    that you might get caught.