Jeremiah 27:1-11

The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar

In the beginning of the reign of ¹^aZedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying— 2 thus says Yahweh to me—“Make for yourself ^abonds and the ^bbars of a yoke and put them on your neck, 3 and you shall send ¹word to the king of ^aEdom, to the king of ^aMoab, to the king of the sons of ^aAmmon, to the king of ^aTyre, and to the king of ^aSidon by the hand of messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 And you shall command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters, 5 “^aI have made the earth, the men, and the animals which are on the face of the earth ^bby My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will ^cgive it to the one who is right in My eyes. 6 So now, I ^ahave given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^bMy servant, and I have given him even the ^cwild beasts of the field to serve him. 7 ^aAll the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson ^buntil the time of his own land comes; then ^cmany nations and great kings will ¹make him their servant.
8 “And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which ^awill not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the ^bsword, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Yahweh, “until I have brought ¹it to an end by his hand. 9 But as for you, ^ado not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your ¹dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For they prophesy a ^alie to you in order to ^bremove you far from your land; and I will banish you, and you will perish. 11 But the nation which will ^abring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will ^bleave it on its land,” declares Yahweh, “and they will serve it and inhabit it.”’”

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