58. The walls of mighty Babylon will be thrown to the ground,and its towering gates burnt down.The work of the nations is all for nothing;their efforts go up in flames.I, the Lord Almighty, have spoken.”
59. King Zedekiah's personal attendant was Seraiah, the son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. In the fourth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, Seraiah was going to Babylonia with him, and I gave him some instructions.
60. I wrote in a book an account of all the destruction that would come on Babylonia, as well as all these other things about Babylonia.
61. I told Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, be sure to read aloud to the people everything that is written here.
62. Then pray, ‘Lord, you have said that you would destroy this place, so that there would be no living creatures in it, neither people nor animals, and it would be like a desert for ever.’