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.” ’ ”

¹²And I spoke words like these to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saying,^k “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. ¹³Why should you die—you and your people—by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? ¹⁴And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, saying,^l ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying a lie to you. ¹⁵For I have not sent them,” declares^m Yahweh, “but they are prophesying in my name falsely,ⁿ so that I will drive them away. And you will perish—you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”

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Footnotes

hLiterally “a declaration of”
iLiterally “to say”
jLiterally “a declaration of”
kLiterally “to say”
lLiterally “to say”
mLiterally “a declaration of”
nLiterally “to the lie”