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Jeremiah 51:60-64

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

60. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon. 61. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62. Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63. And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64. And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 51:60-64 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 51:60

Theological / Devotional

In a book. Literally, “in one book.” That this was not the only copy of the message against Babylon is plain from the fact that the record was not lost when the book was thrown into the Euphrates (v. 63). The prophet, or his secretary Baruch, probably made a copy on a separate scroll of the part of the prophecies pertaining to Babylon, and gave this to Seraiah when the opportunity of sending it to Babylon presented itself.

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