It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 51 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Seraiah is told to bind a stone to the scroll and cast it into the Euphrates, saying 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more' (LXX Jer 28:63-64). Direct source for the angel casting the millstone into the sea: 'Thus with violence will Babylon be thrown down, and will be found no more.' The sign-act and the 'sink, no more' formula match closely. Highest-confidence source for v.21.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
A stone bound to a scroll and sunk in the Euphrates as a sign of irreversible sinking judgment ('thus shall Babylon sink') parallels the millstone-and-sea image of inescapable doom. Contested.
Low confidence