"Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, [that] you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.

"Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.' " Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion.

Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, Like a woman in birth pangs. For now you shall go forth from the city, You shall dwell in the field, And to Babylon you shall go. There you shall be delivered; There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.