59. This is what the prophet Jeremiah instructed the staff officer Seraiah, Neriah’s son and Mahseiah’s grandson, when Seraiah went to Babylon with Judah’s King Zedekiah in the fourth year of his rule.
60. Jeremiah wrote down in a single scroll all the disasters that would happen to Babylon—all these things concerning Babylon.
61. Jeremiah said to Seraiah: When you get to Babylon, see to it that you read all these words.