In the
beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying,
02 Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and
yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
03 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;
04 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;
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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:
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.
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.
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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.
16 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.
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;
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.
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