DAB October 28, 2026

The sound of a cry is coming from Babylon.

Great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans.

For the Lord is destroying Babylon and he will make the loud sounds from her disappear.

Their waves will roar like many waters.

The noise of their voices will sound forth.

Indeed the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon.

Her warriors are captured and her bows are broken.

For the Lord is a God of recompense, and he will repay in full.

I'll make their leaders, their wise men, their governors, their deputies, and their warriors drunk so that they sleep forever and don't wake up, declares the king, whose name is the Lord of the heavenly armies.

This is what the Lord of the heavenly armies says.

the broad wall of Babylon will be completely leveled, and its high gate set on fire.

And so the people toil for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.

This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet delivered to Nehariah's son, Sariah, the grandson of Maaseah, when he went with King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.

Sariah was the quartermaster, Jeremiah wrote on a single scroll all the disasters that would come on Babylon, all these things that were written about Babylon.

Jeremiah told Sariah, When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words and say, Lord, you have declared about this place that you would destroy it so that there wouldn't be an inhabitant in it, neither human nor animal, because it will be a wasteland forever.

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a rock around it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates and say, Babylon will sink like this and won't rise from the disaster that I'm bringing on her.

Her people will be exhausted.

This concludes the writings of Jeremiah.

Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem.

His mother's name was Hamotah, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Zedekiah had done evil in the Lord's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.

Because Jerusalem and Judah had angered the Lord, he cast them out of his presence.

Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon, and in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month on the tenth day, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with all his army.

He encamped near it and set up siege works all around it.

The city was under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.