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Jeremiah 51:58-60
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Jeremiah 51:58-60
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The walls of spacious Babylon shall be leveled to the ground,
its lofty gates destroyed by fire.
The toil of the peoples is for nothing;
the nations weary themselves for what the flames consume.(A)
The Prophecy Sent to Babylon. 59 The mission Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah,[a] son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign; Seraiah was chief quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote down on one scroll the disaster that would befall Babylon;[b] all these words were written against Babylon.
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- 51:59 Seraiah: the brother of Baruch; cf. 32:12. He may have gone to Babylon to explain away the presence of foreign ambassadors in Jerusalem that same year; cf. 27:3.
- 51:60 Jeremiah prophesied against Babylon, even as he foretold Judah’s release from Babylon’s power (3:14–18; 32:15; 33:6–9, 12–13); but his scroll against Babylon was thrown in the Euphrates (v. 63). Some of the preceding oracles may have been composed by later writers; see note on 50:1–51:58.
Jeremiah 51:58-60
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:58-60
New International Version
58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Babylon’s thick wall(A) will be leveled
and her high gates(B) set on fire;
the peoples(C) exhaust(D) themselves for nothing,
the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”(E)
59 This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah,(F) the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah(G) king of Judah in the fourth(H) year of his reign. 60 Jeremiah had written on a scroll(I) about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.
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