^(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
    She has become ^(B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt ^(C)for every unclean spirit,
    a haunt ^(D)for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

^9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    ^(B)to ^(C)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
¹⁰ You have devised shame for your house
    ^(D)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
¹¹ For ^(E)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

⁴ Hear this, ^(A)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵ saying, “When will ^(B)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(C)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(D)the ephah small and the shekel^[a] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶ that we may buy the poor for ^(E)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”