Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Þou virgyn, þe douytir Babiloyne, go doun, sitte thou in dust, sitte thou in erþe; a kyngis seete is not to þe douyter of Caldeis, for thou schalt no more be clepid soft and tendir.