58. The thick walls of that citywill be torn down,and its huge gates burnt.Everything that nationworked so hard to gainwill go up in smoke.
59. During Zedekiah's fourth year as king of Judah, he went to Babylon. And Baruch's brother Seraiah went along as the officer in charge of arranging for places to stay overnight.
60. Before they left, I wrote on a scroll all the terrible things that would happen to Babylon.
61. I gave the scroll to Seraiah and said:When you get to Babylon, read this scroll aloud,
62. then pray, “Our Lord, you promised to destroy this place and make it into a desert where no people or animals will ever live.”
63. When you finish praying, tie the scroll to a rock and throw it in the River Euphrates. Then say,
64. “This is how Babylon will sink when the Lord destroys it. Everyone in the city will die, and it won't have the strength to rise again.”Jeremiah's writing ends here.