⁵ “Look at the nations and watch—
    and be utterly amazed.^(A)
For I am going to do something in your days
    that you would not believe,
    even if you were told.^(B)
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,^[a](C)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth^(D)
    to seize dwellings not their own.^(E)
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;^(F)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.

47 “Go down, sit in the dust,^(A)
    Virgin Daughter^(B) Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne,
    queen city of the Babylonians.^[a](C)
No more will you be called
    tender or delicate.^(D)