Jeremiah 51:60
58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
59 This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
62 and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
- KJV
- So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
- WEB
- Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
- ASV
- And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
- DARBY
- And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.
- BLB
- Jeremiah wrote [down] all the evil that would come upon Babylon into one scroll; all these words that [were] written against Babylon.
- ÅB
- Jeremias skrev opp i en bok all den ulykke som skulle komme over Babel, alle disse ord som er skrevet om Babel.
- OTB
- For slik sa Herren til Jeremia: ‘Ta en stor rull og skriv på den alle ordene som jeg har talt mot Babylon og mot alle nasjonene, fra den dagen jeg først talte om dem, selv til denne dag.’
- B1930
- Jeremias skrev op i en bok all den ulykke som skulde komme over Babel, alle disse ord som er skrevet om Babel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 30:8
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:2–3
Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
Read in contextJeremiah 30:2–3
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:32
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Read in contextDaniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
Read in contextIsaiah 8:1–4
Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Read in contextRevelation 1:11
saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
Read in contextRevelation 1:19
Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.
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