New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah 51:59-64

59The 1message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of 2Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with 3Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)

60So Jeremiah 4wrote in a single 5scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

61Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

62and say, ‘You, O Lord, have 6promised concerning this place to 7cut it off, so that there will be 8nothing dwelling in it, 9whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’

63And as soon as you finish reading this 10scroll, you will tie a stone to it and 11throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

64and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and 12not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become 13exhausted.’” 14Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 51:59 Lit word ↩
2. Jeremiah 51:59 Jer 32:12; 36:4; 45:1 ↩
3. Jeremiah 51:59 Jer 28:1; 52:1 ↩
4. Jeremiah 51:60 Is 30:8; Jer 30:2, 3; 36:2, 4, 32 ↩
5. Jeremiah 51:60 Or book ↩
6. Jeremiah 51:62 Lit spoken ↩
7. Jeremiah 51:62 Is 13:19-22; 14:22, 23; Jer 50:3, 13, 39, 40 ↩
8. Jeremiah 51:62 Jer 51:43; Ezek 35:9 ↩
9. Jeremiah 51:62 Lit from man even to beast ↩
10. Jeremiah 51:63 Or book ↩
11. Jeremiah 51:63 Jer 19:10, 11; Rev 18:21 ↩
12. Jeremiah 51:64 Nah 1:8, 9 ↩
13. Jeremiah 51:64 Jer 51:58 ↩
14. Jeremiah 51:64 Job 31:40; Ps 72:20 ↩

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