Jer 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 YHWH, saying,
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Thus says YHWH to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them upon your neck;
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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 that come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
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and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God
of Israel, Thus shall you say to your masters:
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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.
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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 also have I given him to serve him.
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And 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.
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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 will I punish, says YHWH, with the sword, and
with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
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But as for you, hearken you not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your
dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak to you, saying,
You shall not serve the king of Babylon:
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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.
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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 YHWH; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein.
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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.
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Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,
as YHWH has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
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And hearken not to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall
not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
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For I have not sent them, says YHWH, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I
may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to
you.
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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says YHWH: Hearken
not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels
of YHWH`s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy
a lie to you.
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Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city
become a desolation?
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But 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 YHWH, and in the
house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
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For thus says 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,
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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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yea, thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left
in the house of YHWH, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
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They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit
them, says YHWH; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.