Jeremiah 27:1–11

The Nations to Submit to Nebuchadnezzar

¹In the beginning of the reign of ^1aZedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying—

²thus says the Lord to me—“Make for yourself ^abonds and ^byokes and put them on your neck,

³and send ¹word to the king of ^aEdom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon ²by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

⁴“Command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters,

⁵“^aI have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth ^bby My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will ^cgive it to the one who is ¹pleasing in My sight.

⁶“Now I ^ahave given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^bMy servant, and I have given him also the ^cwild animals of the field to serve him.

⁷“^aAll the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson ^buntil the time of his own land comes; then ^cmany nations and great kings will ¹make him their servant.

⁸“It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which ^awill not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the ^bsword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the Lord, “until I have destroyed ¹it by his hand.

⁹“But as for you, ^ado not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your ¹dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

¹⁰“For they prophesy a ^alie to you in order to ^bremove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

¹¹“But the nation which will ^abring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will ^blet remain on its land,” declares the Lord, “and they will till it and dwell in it.” ’ ”