⁷ Is this your exultant city
    ^(A)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?

² you who are full of shoutings,
    tumultuous city, ^(A)exultant town?
Your slain are ^(B)not slain with the sword
    or dead in battle.

47 ^(A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin ^(B)daughter of Babylon;
^(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of ^(D)the Chaldeans!
^(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.
² Take the millstones and ^(F)grind flour,
    ^(G)put off your veil,
strip off your robe, uncover your legs,
    pass through the rivers.

^13 (A)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
^(B)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.