⁶ Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.^(A)
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.^(B)

⁸ Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.
Wail for her;
get balm^(A) for her wound—
perhaps she can be healed.

⁴³ Her cities have become a desolation,^(A)
an arid desert,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being even passes through.