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 the LORD , saying , * So says the LORD to me , Make bonds and yokes for yourself , and put them on your neck . * And send them to the king of Edom , and to the king of Moab , and to the king of the Ammonites , and to the king of Tyre , and to the king of Sidon , by the hand of the messengers who came to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah . * And command them to [go to ] their masters , So says Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel : So you shall say to your masters , * I have made the earth , man , and the animals on the face of the earth , by My great power and by My outstretched arm , and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me . * And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , My servant . And I have also given him the beast of the field to serve him . * And all 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 enslave him . * And it shall be , the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon , that nation I will punish , says the LORD , with the sword and with the famine , and with the plague , until I have destroyed them by his hand . * As for you , do not listen to your prophets , nor to your fortune tellers , nor to your dreamers , nor to your conjurers , nor to your sorcerers , who speak to you , saying , You 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 you should perish . * But the nations who bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon , and serve him , those I will leave it on their own land , says the LORD . And [they ] shall work it and dwell in it . * I also 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 you die , you and your people , by the sword , by the famine , and by the plague , as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon ? * Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you , saying , You shall not serve the king of Babylon . For they prophesy a lie to you . * For I have not sent them , says the LORD ; yet they prophesy a lie in My name , so that I might drive you out , and that you might perish , you and the prophets who prophesy to you . * Also I spoke to the priests and to all the people , saying , So says the LORD , Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you , saying , Behold , the vessels of the LORD 's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon . For they prophesy a lie to you . * Do not listen to them ; serve the king of Babylon and live . For why should this city be laid waste ? * But if they [are ] prophets , and if the Word of the LORD is with them , let them now pray to Jehovah of hosts , that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD , and [in ] the house of the king of Judah , and at Jerusalem , may not go to Babylon . * For so says Jehovah of hosts , concerning the pillars , and concerning the sea , and concerning the bases , and concerning the rest of the vessels which remain in this city , * which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon , and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem ; * yes , so says Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel , concerning the vessels that remain [in ] the house of the LORD and [in ] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem : * They shall be carried to Babylon , and they shall be there until the day that I visit them , says the LORD . Then I will bring them up and give them back to this place .

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