57. And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
58. Thus says the LORD of hosts;
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. And this Seraiah was the quartermaster.
60. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
61. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words;