New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 51
59 The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.
61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,
62 and say, ’You, O Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’
63 And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,
64 and say, ’Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord like all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.
5 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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