58 This is what the Lord of armies says:

“The broad (A)wall of Babylon will be completely demolished,
And her high (B)gates will be set on fire;
So the peoples will (C)labor for nothing,
And the nations become (D)exhausted only for fire.”

59 The [a]command that Jeremiah the prophet [b]gave Seraiah the son of (E)Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with (F)Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 Jeremiah (G)wrote [c]on a single scroll all the disaster which would come against Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:59 Lit word
  2. Jeremiah 51:59 Lit commanded
  3. Jeremiah 51:60 Or in...book

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