¹⁹ These two things have befallen you
    —who will grieve with you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword.
    Who will comfort you?^[a](A)

⁹ We tried to heal Babylon,
    but she could not be healed.
Forsake her, and let each of us go
    to our own country,
for her judgment has reached up to heaven
    and has been lifted up even to the skies.^(A)

⁹ “Plunder the silver;
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!”