Jeremiah 51:61
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New International Version (©2011)
He said to Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He said to Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, read aloud everything on this scroll.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Jeremiah told Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Jeremiah told Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all this.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words;

American King James Version
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words;

American Standard Version
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,

Darby Bible Translation
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, see that thou read all these words;

English Revised Version
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou shalt come to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

World English Bible
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, 'When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

51:59-64 This prophecy is sent to Babylon, to the captives there, by Seraiah, who is to read it to his countrymen in captivity. Let them with faith see the end of these threatening powers, and comfort themselves herewith. When we see what this world is, how glittering its shows, and how flattering its proposals, let us read in the book of the Lord that it shall shortly be desolate. The book must be thrown into the river Euphrates. The fall of the New Testament Babylon is thus represented, Re 18:21. Those that sink under the weight of God's wrath and curse, sink for ever. Babylon, and every antichrist, will soon sink and rise no more for ever. Let us hope in God's word, and quietly wait for his salvation; then we shall see, but shall not share, the destruction of the wicked.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 61. - (Comp. 50:3; 51:26.) And shalt see, and shalt read; rather, See that thou read.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah,.... At the time he delivered the copy to him:

when thou comest to Babylon; or art come to Babylon, to the city of Babylon, and to the captive Jews there:

and shalt see them; the captives; or rather the great and populous city of Babylon, its high walls, gates, and towers, whose destruction is foretold in this book, and which might seem incredible. Abarbinel interprets it of his looking into the book given him; which he thinks was not to be opened and looked into till he came to Babylon:

and shalt read all these words; not before the king of Babylon and his princes, and yet not privately to himself; but in some proper place, in the presence of the captive Jews, or the chief of them, convened for that purpose.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

61. read—not in public, for the Chaldeans would not have understood Hebrew; but in private, as is to be inferred from his addressing himself altogether to God (Jer 51:62) [Calvin].

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Jeremiah's Prophecy to Seraiah
59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words; …

Jeremiah 51:60 Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon--all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:62 Then say, 'LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.'