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Jeremiah 27 1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 2Thus saith YHWH to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them
upon your neck; 3and 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 that
come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 4and give them a
charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith YHWH of hosts, the God
of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters: 5I 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 unto whom it
seemeth right unto me. 6And now have I given all these lands into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him. 7And 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 bondman. 8And 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 will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the
sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have
consumed them by his hand. 9But 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, that speak unto you, saying, Ye
shall not serve the king of Babylon: 10for they prophesy a lie
unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you
out, and ye should perish. 11But 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, saith Jehovah; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein. 12And I spake 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. 13Why will ye die, you and your people, by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence, as YHWH hath spoken concerning
the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14And hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye
shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. 15For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy
falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish,
ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. 16Also I spake to
the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken
not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying,
Behold, the vessels of Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought
again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. 17Hearken
not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should
this city become a desolation? 18But if they be prophets, and if
the word of YHWH be with them, let them now make intercession to
YHWH of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of
Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go
not to Babylon. 19For thus saith YHWH of hosts concerning the
pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, 20which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, 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; 21yea, thus saith YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: 22They shall be carried to
Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them,
saith Jehovah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this
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