62 and say, ‘You, O Lord, have [a]promised concerning this place to (A)cut it off, so that there will be (B)nothing dwelling in it, [b]whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this [c]scroll, you will tie a stone to it and (C)throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and (D)not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become (E)exhausted.’” (F)Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:62 Lit spoken
  2. Jeremiah 51:62 Lit from man even to beast
  3. Jeremiah 51:63 Or book