World English Bible
"Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,"
— Jeremiah 51:61, World English Bible
“And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;”
“And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words, ”
“Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah,“When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.”
“And Jeremiah said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,”
“And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;”
“And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;”
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.
It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:
and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.