49. As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50. You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51. We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
52. Therefore, behold, the days come,
53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall plunderers come unto her,
54. A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55. Because the LORD has plundered Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is raised:
56. Because the plunderer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, everyone of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely repay.
57. And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
58. Thus says the LORD of hosts;
59. The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was the quartermaster.
60. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.