The Bible

Jeremiah Chapter 27

¹At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from ForeverOne, saying, ²Thus says ForeverOne to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck; ³and send them to the king 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 who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; ⁴and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says ForeverOne of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters: ⁵I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

⁶Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.

⁷All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.

⁸The nation and the kingdom which will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says ForeverOne, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

⁹But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: ¹⁰for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

¹¹But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says ForeverOne; and they shall till it, and dwell in it.

¹²I spoke 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.

¹³Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as ForeverOne has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

¹⁴Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

¹⁵For I have not sent them, says ForeverOne, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

¹⁶Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says ForeverOne: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of ForeverOne's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

¹⁷Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

¹⁸But if they be prophets, and if the word of ForeverOne be with them, let them now make intercession to ForeverOne of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of ForeverOne, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.

¹⁹For thus says ForeverOne of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, ²⁰which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, 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; ²¹yes, thus says ForeverOne of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of ForeverOne, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: ²²They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says ForeverOne; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.