Jeremiah 51:59-64

Living Bible

⁵⁹ During the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign, this message came to Jeremiah to give to Seraiah (son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah), concerning Seraiah’s capture^[a] and exile to Babylon along with Zedekiah, king of Judah. (Seraiah was quartermaster of Zedekiah’s army.) ⁶⁰ Jeremiah wrote on a scroll all the terrible things God had scheduled against Babylon—all the words written above— ^61-62 and gave the scroll to Seraiah and said to him, “When you get to Babylon, read what I have written and say, ‘Lord, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that not a living creature will remain, and it will be abandoned forever.’ ⁶³ Then, when you have finished reading the scroll, tie a rock to it, and throw it into the Euphrates River, ⁶⁴ and say, ‘So shall Babylon sink, never more to rise, because of the evil I am bringing upon her.’”

(This ends Jeremiah’s messages.)