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destroyers I send will come against her,”\ndeclares the LORD.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":38,"level":1},{"start":39,"end":74,"level":2},{"start":75,"end":120,"level":1},{"start":121,"end":139,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":54,"text":"“The sound of a cry\ncomes from Babylon,\nthe sound of great destruction\nfrom the land of the Chaldeans!","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":19,"level":1},{"start":20,"end":39,"level":2},{"start":40,"end":70,"level":1},{"start":71,"end":102,"level":2}]},{"type":"verse","number":55,"text":"For the LORD will destroy Babylon;\nHe will silence her mighty voice.\nThe waves will roar like great waters;\nthe tumult of their voices will resound.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":34,"level":1},{"start":35,"end":68,"level":2},{"start":69,"end":107,"level":1},{"start":108,"end":148,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":56,"text":"For a destroyer is coming against her—\nagainst Babylon.\nHer 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the people will be for nothing;\nthe nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":37,"end":76,"level":1},{"start":77,"end":113,"level":2},{"start":114,"end":161,"level":1},{"start":162,"end":218,"level":2}]},{"type":"heading","text":"Jeremiah’s Message to Seraiah"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":59,"text":"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.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":60,"text":"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.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":61,"text":"And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":62,"text":"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.’","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":63,"text":"When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":64,"text":"Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’”\nHere end the words of Jeremiah.","footnotes":[]}],"footnotes":[]},"fullChapterApiLink":"/api/BSB/JER/51.json"}