New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 51:60-64

60Jeremiah 1wrote 2on 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 3promised concerning this place to 4cut it off, so that there will be 5nothing living in it, 6whether man or animal; but it will be a permanent desolation.’

63And as soon as you finish reading this 7scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and 8throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

64and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and 9not rise again, because of the disaster that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become 10exhausted.’” 11To this point are the words of Jeremiah.

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Notes

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

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