Jeremiah 27:3-11

3and send 1word to the king of 2Edom, to the king of 3Moab, to the king of the sons of 4Ammon, to the king of 5Tyre and to the king of 6Sidon 7by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4Command 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“8I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth 9by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will 10give it to the one who is 11pleasing in My sight. 6Now I 12have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 13My servant, and I have given him also the 14wild animals of the field to serve him. 715All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson 16until the time of his own land comes; then 17many nations and great kings will 18make him their servant.

8“It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which 19will 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 20sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the Lord, “until I have destroyed 21it by his hand. 9But as for you, 22do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your 23dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10For they prophesy a 24lie to you in order to 25remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish. 11But the nation which will 26bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will 27let remain on its land,” declares the Lord, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”