Today is the 28th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's

great to be here with you. Around the global campfire that we come in out of the cold

and warm ourselves and light ourselves each and every day. It's great to be here with

you at the end of another week. And as we end this week, we will be ending books in the

old and new testament, setting us up well for the beginning of a new week, where we will

begin two new books, one new book and one new letter. So we'll complete the book of Jeremiah

and the letter to Titus today. Reading from the names of God Bible this week, Jeremiah

chapter 51, verse 54 through 52, verse 34.

Crys of agony are heard from Babylon. Sounds of terrible destruction are heard from the land of

the Babylonians. Yahweh will destroy Babylon. He will silence the loud noise coming from it.

Waves of enemies will come roaring in like raging water. The noise will be heard everywhere.

A destroyer will attack Babylon. Its soldiers will be captured and their bows and arrows will

be broken. I, Yahweh, am a God who punishes evil. I will certainly punish them. I will make

their officials and wise men drunk, along with their governors, officers and soldiers. They

will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up, declares the milk whose name is Yahweh to

beoth. This is what Yahweh to beoth says. The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled and

its high gates will be set on fire. People exhaust themselves for nothing. The nations wear themselves

out only to have a fire. This is the message that the Prophet Jeremiah gave to Saraya, son of

Niraya and grandson of Masiya. When Saraya went to Babylon with King Zedekaya of Judah and the fourth

year of Zedekaya's rule, Saraya was the quarter master. Jeremiah wrote on a scroll all the

disasters that would happen to Babylon. He wrote all these things that have been written about Babylon.

Jeremiah said to Saraya, when you come to Babylon, see that you read all this, then say, Yahweh,

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