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And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name
is the LORD of the hosts.
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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire
to save her, and they shall become weary.
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The word which Jeremiah the prophet sent to Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And
this Seraiah
was the chief steward of the bedchambers.
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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon,
even all these words that are written against Babylon.
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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these things;
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then thou shalt say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
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And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book,
that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;
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and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be overcome. Thus far
are the words of Jeremiah.