“So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.”
King James Version (KJV)
51:58 Weary - Though the people should labour to quench this fire, or to rebuild this city, yet it would be all lost labour.
51:59 In the fourth year - This circumstance lets us know that this prophecy was many years before Babylon was destroyed; for it was seven years before Jerusalem was taken; so as it must be above sixty years before it was fulfilled in the first degree.
51:61 Shalt read - Probably to the Jews, that were in Babylon.
51:62 Shalt say - Thou shalt testify that thou believest what thou hast read.