60. Jeremiah wrote down on one scroll the disaster that would befall Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.
61. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you reach Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
62. and then say: Lord, you yourself spoke against this place in order to cut it down so that nothing, human being or beast, could live in it, because it is to remain a wasteland forever.
63. When you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates,
64. and say: Thus Babylon shall sink. It will never rise, because of the disaster I am bringing upon it.” Thus far the words of Jeremiah.