Disaster Will Come Upon You & You Will Not Know How to Conjure It Away

Go down, sit in the dust

Daughter of Babylon

Sit on the ground

Without a throne

(Daughter of Babylon)

No more will you be called

Tender or delicate

Take millstones to grind flour

Take off your veil

Lift up your skirt and bare your legs

And wade through the streams

Your nakedness will be exposed

And your shame uncovered

I will take vengeance

And I will spare no one

I will take vengeance

I will spare no one

Now then listen, you one-time creature lounging in your

Security and saying to yourself, "There is none besides me."

I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children

Both of these will overtake you in a single moment

They will come upon you in full measure in spite

Of your many sorceries and all your potent spells

You have trusted in your wickedness by saying

"No one sees me, no one sees me, no one sees me

There is none besides me, besides me."