New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 27:1-15

1In the beginning of the reign of 1 2Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying-- 2this is what the Lord has said to me: “Make for yourself 3restraints and 4yokes and put them on your neck, 3and send 5word to the king of 6Edom, the king of 7Moab, the king of the sons of 8Ammon, the king of 9Tyre, and to the king of 10Sidon 11by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4Order them to go to their masters, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “This is what you shall say to your masters: 5‘12I have made the earth, mankind, and the animals which are on the face of the earth 13by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will 14give it to the one who is 15pleasing in My sight. 6And now I 16have handed all these lands over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 17My servant, and I have also given him the 18animals of the field to serve him. 7 19All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson 20until the time of his own land comes; then 21many nations and great kings will 22make him their servant.

8‘And it will be that the nation or the kingdom which 23will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the 24sword, with famine, and with plague,’ declares the Lord, ‘until I have eliminated 25it by his hand. 9And as for you, 26do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your 27dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who talk to you, saying, “You will not serve the king of Babylon.” 10For they are prophesying a 28lie to you in order to 29remove you far from your land; and I will drive you away and you will perish. 11But the nation that will 30bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will 31let remain on its land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and they will cultivate it and live in it.’”’”

12I spoke words like all these to 32Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live! 13Why should you 33die, you and your people, by the sword, famine, and plague, as the Lord has spoken to the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14So 34do not listen to the words of the prophets who talk to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying a 35lie to you; 15for 36I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they are 37prophesying falsely in My name, so that I will 38drive you away and that you will perish, 39you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

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1. Jeremiah 27:1 Many mss Jehoiakim ↩
2. Jeremiah 27:1 2 Kin 24:18-20; 2 Chr 36:11-13 ↩
3. Jeremiah 27:2 Jer 30:8 ↩
4. Jeremiah 27:2 Jer 28:10, 13 ↩
5. Jeremiah 27:3 Lit them ↩
6. Jeremiah 27:3 Jer 25:21, 22 ↩
7. Jeremiah 27:3 Jer 25:21, 22 ↩
8. Jeremiah 27:3 Jer 25:21, 22 ↩
9. Jeremiah 27:3 Jer 25:21, 22 ↩
10. Jeremiah 27:3 Jer 25:21, 22 ↩
11. Jeremiah 27:3 Lit by the hand of ↩
12. Jeremiah 27:5 Ps 96:5; 146:5, 6; Is 42:5; 45:12; Jer 10:12; 51:15 ↩
13. Jeremiah 27:5 Deut 9:29; Jer 32:17; Dan 4:17 ↩
14. Jeremiah 27:5 Ps 115:15, 16; Acts 17:26 ↩
15. Jeremiah 27:5 Or upright ↩
16. Jeremiah 27:6 Jer 21:7; 22:25; Ezek 29:18-20 ↩
17. Jeremiah 27:6 Is 44:28; Jer 25:9; 43:10 ↩
18. Jeremiah 27:6 Jer 28:14; Dan 2:38 ↩
19. Jeremiah 27:7 2 Chr 36:20; Jer 44:30; 46:13 ↩
20. Jeremiah 27:7 Dan 5:26; Zech 2:8, 9 ↩
21. Jeremiah 27:7 Is 14:4-6; Jer 25:12 ↩
22. Jeremiah 27:7 Or enslave him ↩
23. Jeremiah 27:8 Jer 38:17-19; 42:15, 16; Ezek 17:19-21 ↩
24. Jeremiah 27:8 Jer 24:10; 27:13; 29:17, 18; Ezek 14:21 ↩
25. Jeremiah 27:8 Lit them ↩
26. Jeremiah 27:9 Ex 22:18; Deut 18:10; Prov 19:27; Is 8:19; Mal 3:5; Eph 5:6 ↩
27. Jeremiah 27:9 Lit dreams ↩
28. Jeremiah 27:10 Jer 23:25 ↩
29. Jeremiah 27:10 Jer 8:19; 32:31 ↩
30. Jeremiah 27:11 Jer 27:2, 8, 12 ↩
31. Jeremiah 27:11 Jer 21:9; 38:2; 40:9-12; 42:10, 11 ↩
32. Jeremiah 27:12 Jer 27:3; 28:1; 38:17 ↩
33. Jeremiah 27:13 Prov 8:36; Jer 27:8; 38:23; Ezek 18:31 ↩
34. Jeremiah 27:14 Jer 27:9; 2 Cor 11:13-15 ↩
35. Jeremiah 27:14 Jer 14:14; 23:21; 27:10; 29:8, 9; Ezek 13:22 ↩
36. Jeremiah 27:15 Jer 23:21; 29:9 ↩
37. Jeremiah 27:15 Jer 23:25 ↩
38. Jeremiah 27:15 2 Chr 25:16; Jer 27:10 ↩
39. Jeremiah 27:15 Jer 6:13-15; 14:15, 16 ↩

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