59. This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah gave to Seraiah, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s rule. (Seraiah was the quartermaster.)
60. Jeremiah wrote on a scroll all the disasters that would happen to Babylon. He wrote all these things that have been written about Babylon.
61. Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all this.
62. Then say, ‘Lord, you have threatened to destroy this place so that no person or animal will live here, and it will become a permanent ruin.’
63. When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.
64. Say, ‘Babylon will sink like this scroll. It will never rise again because of the disasters that I will bring on it.’”The words of Jeremiah end here.