Jeremiah:27

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* In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah , came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh , saying , * Thus says Yahweh to me : Make bonds and bars , 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 children 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 command to their masters , saying , Thus says Yahweh of Armies , the God of Israel , You shall tell your masters : * I have made the earth , the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth , by my great power and by my outstretched arm ; and I give it to whom it seems right to me . * Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , my servant ; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him . * All the nations shall serve him , and his son , and his son 's son , until the time of his own land come : and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant . * It shall happen , 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 will I punish , says Yahweh , with the sword , and with the famine , and with the pestilence , until I have consumed them by his hand . * But as for you , don 't you listen to your prophets , nor to your diviners , nor to your dreams , nor to your soothsayers , 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 nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon , and serve him , that nation will I let remain in their own land , says Yahweh ; and they shall till it , and dwell therein . * 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 you die , you and your people , by the sword , by the famine , and by the pestilence , as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon ? * Don 't 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 Yahweh , but they prophesy falsely in my name ; that I may drive you out , and that you may perish , you , and the prophets who prophesy to you . * Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people , saying , Thus says Yahweh : Don 't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you , saying , Behold , the vessels of Yahweh 's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon ; for they prophesy a lie to you . * Don 't listen to them ; serve the king of Babylon , and live : why should this city become a desolation ? * But if they be prophets , and if the word of Yahweh be with them , let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies , that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh , and in the house of the king of Judah , and at Jerusalem , don 't go to Babylon . * For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars , and concerning the sea , and concerning the bases , and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city , * which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn 't 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 ; * yes , thus says Yahweh of Armies , the God of Israel , concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh , and in the house of the king of Judah , and at Jerusalem : * They shall be carried to Babylon , and there shall they be , until the day that I visit them , says Yahweh ; then will I bring them up , and restore them to this place .

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