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60 And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters[a] that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “At your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words. 62 And you must say, ‘Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals,[b] for it will be an everlasting desolation.’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:60 Hebrew “disaster”
  2. Jeremiah 51:62 Hebrew “animal”
  3. Jeremiah 51:62 Literally “a desolation of eternity”