58. This is what the lord of Heaven’s Armies says:“The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled to the ground,and her massive gates will be burned.The builders from many lands have worked in vain,for their work will be destroyed by fire!”
59. The prophet Jeremiah gave this message to Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, a staff officer, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah. This was during the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
60. Jeremiah had recorded on a scroll all the terrible disasters that would soon come upon Babylon—all the words written here.