Jeremiah 51:61-63

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶¹ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, ⁶² and say, ‘O Lord, you yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither human beings nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.’ ⁶³ When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,