“Come out of that city, my people,
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive the disasters that will come to her.
⁵ Her sins have piled up as high as the sky,
    and God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.
⁶ Give that city the same as she gave to others.
    Pay her back twice as much as she did.
Prepare wine for her that is twice as strong
    as the wine she prepared for others.
⁷ She gave herself much glory and rich living.
    Give her that much suffering and sadness.
She says to herself, ‘I am a queen sitting on my throne.
    I am not a widow; I will never be sad.’
⁸ So these disasters will come to her in one day:
    death, and crying, and great hunger,
and she will be destroyed by fire,
    because the Lord God who judges her is powerful.”