² “Declare among the nations and proclaim,
    set up a banner and proclaim,
    conceal it not, and say:
^(A)‘Babylon is taken,
    ^(B)Bel is put to shame,
    Merodach is dismayed.
^(C)Her images are put to shame,
    her idols are dismayed.’

⁷ All ^(A)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    ^(B)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^(C)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.