59. The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.
60. Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
61. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,
62. and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’