“Daughter Babylon^(A) is like a threshing floor^(B)
    at the time it is trampled;
    the time to harvest^(C) her will soon come.^(D)”

⁸ Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,^(A)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.

⁴² They are armed with bows^(A) and spears;
    they are cruel^(B) and without mercy.^(C)
They sound like the roaring sea^(D)
    as they ride on their horses;
they come like men in battle formation
    to attack you, Daughter Babylon.^(E)

¹¹ “Go up to Gilead and get balm,^(A)
    Virgin^(B) Daughter Egypt.
But you try many medicines in vain;
    there is no healing^(C) for you.

²⁶ The gates^(A) of Zion will lament and mourn;^(B)
    destitute,^(C) she will sit on the ground.^(D)

¹⁸ “Come down from your glory
    and sit on the parched ground,^(A)
    you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon,^(B)
for the one who destroys Moab
    will come up against you
    and ruin your fortified cities.^(C)

“Virgin Daughter^(A) Zion^(B)
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head^(C) as you flee.