⁶ I will pelt you with filth,^(A)
    I will treat you with contempt^(B)
    and make you a spectacle.^(C)

³⁷ Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt^(A) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,^(B)
    a place where no one lives.^(C)

³¹ you would plunge me into a slime pit^(A)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.^(B)

¹⁴ The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:
    “You will have no descendants to bear your name.^(A)
I will destroy the images^(B) and idols
    that are in the temple of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,^(C)
    for you are vile.”

⁵ My wounds^(A) fester and are loathsome^(B)
    because of my sinful folly.^(C)
6 I am bowed down^(D) and brought very low;
    all day long I go about mourning.^(E)
7 My back is filled with searing pain;^(F)
    there is no health^(G) in my body.

⁸ A base and nameless brood,^(A)
    they were driven out of the land.^(B)