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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,[a] for it will be an everlasting desolation.’[b] 63 And then[c] when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. 64 And you must say, ‘Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, because of[d] the face of the disasters[e] that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.’” Thus far[f] the words of Jeremiah.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:62 Hebrew “animal”
  2. Jeremiah 51:62 Literally “a desolation of eternity”
  3. Jeremiah 51:63 Literally “And it will happen”
  4. Jeremiah 51:64 Literally “from”
  5. Jeremiah 51:64 Hebrew “disaster”
  6. Jeremiah 51:64 Literally “Up to here”