⁸ Babylon will suddenly fall^(A) and be broken.
    Wail over her!
Get balm^(B) for her pain;
    perhaps she can be healed.

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.^(B)

¹⁸ Now the coastlands tremble^(A)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’^(B)