Jeremiah 51:58-60

Contemporary English Version

⁵⁸The thick walls of that city
will be torn down,
and its huge gates burned.
Everything that nation
worked so hard to gain
will go up in smoke.

Jeremiah Gives Seraiah a Scroll

⁵⁹During Zedekiah's^[a] fourth year as king of Judah, he went to Babylon. And Baruch's brother Seraiah^[b] went along as the officer in charge of arranging for places to stay overnight.^[c]

⁶⁰Before they left, I wrote on a scroll^[d] all the terrible things that would happen to Babylon.

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Footnotes

51.59 Zedekiah's: See the note at 1.3.
51.59 Baruch's brother Seraiah: Hebrew “Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah”; Baruch helped Jeremiah write down his messages (see 32.12; 36.4-10).
51.59 arranging for places to stay overnight: Hebrew and one ancient translation; two ancient translations, “the tax money.”
51.60 scroll: See the note at 30.1,2.