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Chapter 27 |
| 1 | In the
beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this
word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
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2 | Thus saith the LORD to me;
Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, |
| 3 | 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 Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the
messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; |
| 4 | And
command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; |
| 5 | I have made
the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power
and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto
me. |
| 6 |
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field
have I given him also to serve him. |
| 7 | And all nations shall serve
him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and
then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. |
| 8 |
And it shall come to pass, that 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 will I punish, saith the LORD,
with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have
consumed them by his hand. |
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9 | Therefore hearken not ye to your
prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters,
nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the
king of Babylon: |
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10 | For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far
from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
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| 11 | But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith
the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. |
| 12 | I spake also
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. |
| 13 |
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that
will not serve the king of Babylon? |
| 14 | Therefore 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. |
| 15 | For I have
not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might
drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy
unto you. |
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| Also I spake to the priests and to all this people,
saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that
prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now
shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
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| 17 | Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore
should this city be laid waste? |
| 18 | But if they be prophets, and
if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the
LORD 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, go not to Babylon. |
| 19 |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the
sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that
remain in this city. |
| 20 | Which 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;
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| 21 | Yea, thus saith the LORD 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; |
| 22 | They shall be carried to Babylon, and there
shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place. |
