56. He certainly comes against her;the destroyer comes against Babylon.Her warriors are captured;their bows are broken.The Lord is an exacting Godwho repays in full.
57. I’ll make her leaders and sages drunk,her governors, officials,and warriors as well.They will sleep forever, never to get up,declares the king,whose name isthe Lord of heavenly forces.
58. The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims:Babylon’s massive walls will come down,down to the ground;and its high gates will be burnedto the ground.People labor in vain;nations toil for nothing but ashes!
59. This is what the prophet Jeremiah instructed the staff officer Seraiah, Neriah’s son and Mahseiah’s grandson, when Seraiah went to Babylon with Judah’s King Zedekiah in the fourth year of his rule.
60. Jeremiah wrote down in a single scroll all the disasters that would happen to Babylon—all these things concerning Babylon.