Book of the Prophet Jeremiah ; chapter 27 selected verses
Translation: Common English Bible published 2011
Early in the rule of Judah's King Zedekiah, Josiah's son,
this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
Make a yoke of straps and bars
and wear it on your neck.
Then send word to the kings of
Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and
Sidon through their representatives
who have come to Jerusalem to
Judah's King Zedekiah. Tell them
to say to their masters: the Lord of
heavenly forces, the God of Israel,
proclaims:
By my great power and outstretched
arm, I have made the earth and the
people and animals that are on it. I
can give it to anyone I please. Now I
hand over all these countries to my
servant King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon, I even give him the wild
animals as subjects. All nations
will serve him, his son and grandson,
until the time for his land arrives;
then many nations and great kings
will conquer him. . .
I delivered the same message to Judah's
King Zedekiah: If you want to live, put your
necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon
and serve him and his people . . .
Then I spoke to the priests and all this
people: This is what the Lord says:
Don't listen to the words of the
prophets who are prophesying to you,
'In a short while, the Temple equipment
will be brought back from Babylon."
THEY ARE PROPHESYING A LIE to you.
Don't listen to them; serve the king
of Babylon and live. Otherwise, this
city will be reduced to ruin. If they
are really prophets and have the Lord's
word, let them intercede with the Lord of
heavenly forces not to let the equipment
left in the Lord's Temple and in the royal
palace of Judah and Jerusalem be carted
off to Babylon.
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