"Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon. You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. You are not the ruler now. You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.
"I was angry with my people. They were mine, but I turned against them. I let you punish them, but you showed them no mercy. Even for those who were old you made the work hard.
You said, 'I will live forever. I will always be the queen.' You didn't care what you did to my people. You didn't think about what might happen later.
So now listen, you who love only pleasure! Feeling so safe, you tell yourself, 'I alone am important, and no one else matters. I will never be a widow or lose my children.'
You do bad things but still feel safe. You say to yourself, 'No one sees the wrong I do.' You thought that your wisdom and knowledge would save you. You tell yourself, 'I alone am important, and no one else matters.'
You worked hard all your life learning magic tricks and spells. So start using that magic. Maybe those tricks will help you. Maybe you will be able to frighten someone.
You have many advisors. Are you tired of the advice they give? Then send out your men who read the stars. They can tell when the month starts, so maybe they can tell you when your troubles will come.
But they cannot even save themselves. They will burn like straw. They will burn so fast that there will be no coals left to cook bread. There will be no fire left to sit by.
That's what will happen to those you have worked with, the people you did business with all your life. They will all go their own way. There will be no one left to save you."