58. This is what the Lord who rules over all says,“Babylon’s thick wall will be completely demolished.Her high gates will be set on fire.The peoples strive for what does not satisfy.The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.”
59. This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. (Seraiah was a quartermaster.)
60. Jeremiah recorded on one scroll all the judgments that would come upon Babylon – all these prophecies written about Babylon.
61. Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.
62. Then say, ‘O Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!’
63. When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.