Today is the 28th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. And we're kind of

rounding the corner on this month and heading toward the end. Crazy as it is will be in

the 11th month of the year very soon. Days from now. And we'll get there. We'll get there

like we get everywhere, step by step, day by day. And today is the 28th day of October. And so

that leads us to pick up where we left off, which leads us back into the book of Jeremiah.

We're reading from the new living translation this week and today Jeremiah chapter 51 verse 54

through 52 verse 34. Listen, hear the cry of Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the

land of the Babylonians. For the Lord is destroying Babylon. He will silence her loud voice.

Waves of enemies pound against her. The noise of battle rings through the city.

Destroying armies come against Babylon. Hermitie men are captured and their weapons break in their

hands. For the Lord is a God who gives just punishment. He always repays in full. I will make

her officials and wise men drunk along with her captains, officers and warriors. They will

fall asleep and never wake up again. Says the king whose name is the Lord of Evans armies.

This is what the Lord of Evans armies says. The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled to the

ground and her massive gates will be burned. The builders from many lands have worked in vain for

their work will be destroyed by fire. The prophet Jeremiah gave this message to Saraya, son of

Niraya, a grandson of Masya, a staff officer when Saraya went to Babylon with King Zedekaya of Judah.

This was during the fourth year of Zedekaya's reign. Jeremiah had recorded on a scroll all the

terrible disasters that would soon come upon Babylon. All the words written here. He said to Saraya,

when you get to Babylon, read aloud everything on this scroll and say, Lord, you have said that

you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. You will lie empty

and abandoned forever. When you have finished reading this scroll, tie it to a stone and throw it

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