Jeremiah 51:57-64

English Standard Version

⁵⁷^(A)I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
^(B)her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares ^(C)the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

⁵⁸“Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad ^(D)wall of Babylon
    shall be leveled to the ground,
^(E)and her high gates
    shall be burned with fire.
^(F)The peoples labor for nothing,
    and ^(G)the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

⁵⁹The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah ^(H)the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, ^(I)in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰^(J)Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, ^(K)all these words that are written concerning Babylon. ⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, ⁶²and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^(L)that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^(M)desolate forever.’ ⁶³When you finish reading this book, ^(N)^(O)tie a stone to it ^(P)and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, ⁶⁴and say, ^(Q)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, ^(R)and they shall become exhausted.’”