A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 51:62
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.
The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 51:60
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:61
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
- Jeremiah 51:63
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:
- Jeremiah 51:64
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.