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The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was a chief official.

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon and shall see and shall cry all these words,

then you shall say, O Jehovah, You have spoken against this place to cut it off so that no dweller shall be in it, from man to animal, but it shall be a ruin forever.

And it shall be, when you have finished crying this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.

And you shall say, In this way Babylon shall sink and shall not rise from the evil that I am bringing on her. And they shall be weary. So far are the words of Jeremiah.