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Jeremiah 51:58-60
Lexham English Bible
Jeremiah 51:58-60
Lexham English Bible
58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
“The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished,
and her high gates will burn with fire,
and the peoples will labor for nothing,[a]
and the nations for fire,[b]
and they will grow weary.”
The Scroll Concerning Babylon is Thrown into the Euphrates
59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the quartermaster.[c] 60 And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters[d] that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
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- Jeremiah 51:58 Literally “for enough of empty”
- Jeremiah 51:58 Literally “for enough of fire”
- Jeremiah 51:59 Literally “official of the resting place”
- Jeremiah 51:60 Hebrew “disaster”
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