5 Sit down silently+ and come into the darkness,+ O daughter of the Chal·deʹans;+ for you will not experience again that people call you Mistress+ of Kingdoms.+

4 Adulteresses,*+ do YOU not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God?+ Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend+ of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.+

9 “And the kings+ of the earth who committed fornication with her and lived in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her,+ when they look at the smoke+ from the burning of her,