Jeremiah 51:57-64

57 I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not awake,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.
58 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”
59 This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign.
60 Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.
61 He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.
62 Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’
63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
64 Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

Cross References 20

  • 1. S ver 23
  • 2. S Job 5:13
  • 3. S Isaiah 21:5
  • 4. S ver 39; Psalms 76:5; S Jeremiah 25:27
  • 5. S Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15
  • 6. S ver 44; S 2 Kings 25:4; S Isaiah 15:1
  • 7. S Isaiah 13:2
  • 8. ver 64
  • 9. S Isaiah 47:13
  • 10. S Isaiah 47:14; Habakkuk 2:13
  • 11. Jeremiah 36:4
  • 12. Jeremiah 52:1
  • 13. Jeremiah 28:1
  • 14. S Exodus 17:14; Jeremiah 30:2; Jeremiah 36:2
  • 15. S Isaiah 13:20; S Jeremiah 9:11; S Jeremiah 50:13,39
  • 16. S Genesis 2:14
  • 17. Ezekiel 26:21; Ezekiel 28:19
  • 18. S ver 58
  • 19. Revelation 18:21
  • 20. S Job 31:40
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