New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 51:59-64

59The 1command that Jeremiah the prophet 2gave Seraiah the son of 3Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with 4Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.)

60Jeremiah 5wrote 6on a single scroll all the disaster which would come against Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

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

62and say, ‘You, Lord, have 7promised concerning this place to 8cut it off, so that there will be 9nothing living in it, 10whether man or animal; but it will be a permanent desolation.’

63And as soon as you finish reading this 11scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and 12throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

64and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and 13not rise again, because of the disaster that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become 14exhausted.’” 15To this point are the words of Jeremiah.

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Notes

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

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