²¹ Now you too have proved to be of no help;
    you see something dreadful and are afraid.^(A)

¹¹ My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;^(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.

¹⁷ In one hour^(A) such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’^(B)

“‘Woe! Woe to you, great city,^(F)
    you mighty city of Babylon!
In one hour^(G) your doom has come!’

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’^[a](C)

⁹ “‘We would have healed Babylon,
    but she cannot be healed;
let us leave^(A) her and each go to our own land,
    for her judgment^(B) reaches to the skies,
    it rises as high as the heavens.’

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,^(A)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.^(B)
6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(C) of the desert,
    in a salt^(D) land where no one lives.