61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest unto Babel, and shalt see and shalt read all these words,

62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate forever.

63 And when thou hast made an end of reading this book, thou shalt bind a [a]stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:63 St. John in his Revelation alludeth to this place, when he saith that the Angel took a millstone and cast it into the sea: signifying thereby the destruction of Babylon, Rev. 18:21.

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