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          DASV: Jeremiah 27    

1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 "This is what the LORD said to me: Make a yoke of leather
straps and wooden crossbars, and put them on your neck.
3 Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammonites, Tyre, and
Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem
to Zedekiah king of Judah.
4 Give them a message for their masters, saying, 'This is what
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, This is what
you will tell your masters:
5 I have made the earth, people and animals that are on the
face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched
arm, and I give it to whomever I want.
6 Now I have given all these lands to the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; as
well as the wild animals of the field to serve him.
7 All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson,
until the time of his own land comes to an end. Then many
nations and great kings will make him their slave.
8 The nation and the kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation,
says the LORD, with the sword, famine, and plague,
until I have consumed them by his hand.

9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, diviners,
dreams, soothsayers, or your sorcerers, that speak to
you, saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'
10 For they prophesy lies to you, that will result in
removing you far from your land, so that I should drive
you out and you will perish.
11 But the nation that will bring their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will allow
to remain in their own land," says the LORD, "and they
will farm it and live there."

12 I told King Zedekiah of Judah all these same words,
saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king
of Babylon and serve him and his people and live.
13 Why would you want to die, you and your people,
by the sword, famine, and plague, as the LORD has
spoken concerning the nation that refuses to serve
the king of Babylon?
14 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who claim,
'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are
prophesying a lie to you.
15 'For I have not sent them,' says the LORD, 'but they
are prophesying lies in my name; resulting in my
driving you out and you will perish, both you and
the prophets who are prophesying to you.'"

16 I also spoke to the priests and to all this people,
saying, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to
the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying,
'Look, the sacred vessels of the LORD's house will be
brought back again from Babylon soon,' for they are
prophesying a lie to you.
17 Do not listen to them, rather serve the king of Babylon
and live. Why should this city become a ruin?
18 But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD
is with them, let them now make intercession to the
LORD of hosts, that the sacred vessels that are left
in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
king of Judah and at Jerusalem not go to Babylon.
19 For this is what the LORD of hosts says concerning
the pillars, bronze sea, bases, and all the rest of
the sacred vessels that are left in this city,
20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take,
when he exiled Jehoiachin the son of Jehoiakim, king
of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all
the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
21 Yes, this is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
says, concerning the sacred vessels that are left in the
house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of
Judah and at Jerusalem:
22 'They will be carried to Babylon. They will stay there,
until the day that I punish them,' says the LORD, 'then
will I bring them back, and restore them to this place.'"

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