Jeremiah:27

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* In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah , this word came to Jeremiah from LORD , saying , * Thus says LORD to me : Make thee bonds and bars , and put them upon thy neck . * And send them to the king of Edom , and to the king of Moab , and to the king of the sons of Ammon , and to the king of Tyre , and to the king of Sidon , by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah . * And give them a charge to their masters , saying , Thus says LORD of hosts , the God of Israel : Thus ye shall say to your masters : * I have made the earth , the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth , by my great power and by my outstretched arm , and I give it to whom it seems right to me . * And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , my servant . And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him . * And all the nations shall serve him , and his son , and his son 's son , until the time of his own land comes . And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman . * And it shall come to pass , that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon , that nation I will punish , says LORD , * But as for you , hearken ye not to your prophets , nor to your diviners , nor to your dreams , nor to your soothsayers , nor to your sorcerers , who speak to you , saying , Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon . * For they prophesy a lie to you , to remove you far from your land , and that I should drive you out , and ye should perish . * But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon , and serve him , that [nation ] I will let remain in their own land , says LORD , and they shall till it , and dwell therein . * And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words , saying , Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon , and serve him and his people , and live . * Why will ye die , thou and thy people , by the sword , by the famine , and by the pestilence , as LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon ? * And hearken not to the words of the prophets who speak to you , saying , Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon , for they prophesy a lie to you . * For I have not sent them , says LORD , but they prophesy falsely in my name , that I may drive you out , and that ye may perish , ye , and the prophets who prophesy to you . * Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people , saying , Thus says LORD : Hearken not to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you , saying , Behold , the vessels of LORD 's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon , * Hearken not to them . Serve the king of Babylon , and live . Why should this city become a desolation ? * But if they are prophets , and if the word of LORD is with them , let them now make intercession to LORD of hosts , that the vessels which are left in the house of LORD , and in the house of the king of Judah , and at Jerusalem , not go * For thus says LORD of hosts concerning the pillars , and concerning the sea , and concerning the stands , and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city , * which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim , king of Judah , from Jerusalem to Babylon , and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem . * Yea , thus says LORD of hosts , the God of Israel , concerning the vessels that are left in the house of LORD , and in the house of the king of Judah , and at Jerusalem : * They shall be carried to Babylon , and there they shall be until the day that I visit them , says LORD . Then I will bring them up , and restore them to this place .

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