¹ The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

²⁷ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

²¹ Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.