⁶And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and also the animals^e of the field I have given to him to serve him. ⁷And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and his grandson,^f until the coming of the time of his own^g land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work.

⁸“But it will be that the nation or kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague,” declares^h Yahweh, “until I have destroyed it with my hand. ⁹And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are saying,ⁱ ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ ¹⁰For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish. ¹¹But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land,” declares^j Yahweh, “and they will till it, and they will live in it.” ’ ”

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Footnotes

eHebrew “animal”
fLiterally “the son of his son”
gLiterally “also his”
hLiterally “a declaration of”
iLiterally “to say”
jLiterally “a declaration of”