Jeremiah 51:59-64

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59 The ¹message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ^aNeriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with ^bZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 So Jeremiah ^awrote in a single ¹scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud, 62 and then you will say, ‘You, O Yahweh, have ¹promised concerning this place to ^acut it off, so that there will be ^bnothing inhabiting it, ²whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this ¹scroll, you will tie a stone to it and ^athrow it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and then you will say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and ^anot rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become ^butterly weary.’” ^cThus far are the words of Jeremiah.