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chapter 27
1
In the
beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, this word came
to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
2 Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and
chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.
3 And thou shalt send them to the of Edom, and to the
king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to
Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.
4 And thou shalt command them to speak to their
masters: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to
your masters:
5 I made the earth, and the men, and the beasts that
are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm:
and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.
6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the
field I have given him to serve him.
7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
son's son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and
great kings shall serve him.
8 But the nation and kingdom that will not serve
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and
with famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his
hand.
9 Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners,
and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not
serve the king Babylon.
10 For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far
from your country, and east you out, and to make you perish.
11 But the nation that shall bend down their neck under
the yoke of the king Babylon, and shall serve him: Will let them remain in
their own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it.
12 And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according
to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.
13 Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword,
and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to
you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.
15 For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they
prophesy in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both
you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.
16 I spoke also to the priests, and to this people,
saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that
prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short
time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of
Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?
18 But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be
in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the
vessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king
of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
19 For thus saith the Lord of hosts d to the pillars,
and to the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in
this city:
20 Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not
take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from
Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.
21 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,
to the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the
king of Juda and Jerusalem:
22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they
shall be until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause
them to be brought, and to be re- stored in this place.
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