54 A sound of an outcry comes from Babylon,and great destructionfrom the land of the Chaldeans,
55 because the Lord has devastated Babylon,and destroyed the great voice out of her.When her waves roar like great waters,a noise of their voice is uttered.
56 Because the destroyer is coming against her, even upon Babylon,and her mighty men will be captured,every one of their bows are broken.For the Lord is a God of recompense;He will completely repay.
57 I will make her officials drunk, and her wise men,her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men;and they will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,says the King whose name is the Lord of Hosts.
58 Thus says the Lord of Hosts: The broad wall of Babylon will be utterly broken,and her high gates will be burned with fire;and the peoples will labor in vain,and the nations become exhausted only for fire.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was a quartermaster.
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.