⁵ ‘You city of the Babylonians, sit there quietly!
    Go and hide in a dark place.
People will no longer call you the queen of all kingdoms.
⁶ I was angry with my own people.
They belonged to me as my special people,
    but I punished them like ordinary people.
I gave you the power to hurt them,
    and you were not kind to them.
You were very cruel to old people.
⁷ You boasted,
    “I will rule other nations as queen for ever!”
But you did not think about what you were doing.
    You did not think about what would happen in the end.