56. for a destroyer is coming against her,against Babylon.Her warriors will be captured,their bows shattered,for the Lord is a God of retribution;He will certainly repay.
57. I will make her princes and sages drunk,along with her governors, officials, and warriors.Then they will fall asleep foreverand never wake up. This is the King’s declaration;Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
58. This is what Yahweh of Hosts says:Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates consumed by fire.The peoples will have labored for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.
59. This is what Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, the quartermaster, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
60. Jeremiah wrote on one scroll about all the disaster that would come to Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.