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Jeremiah 27

27 At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year of his reign, this message came from the Eternal to Jeremiah. 2 “The Eternal’s order to Jeremiah: Make a yoke of thongs and bars and put it on your neck; 3 then send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon, by the messengers who have come from them to Zedekiah, king of Judah, at Jerusalem. 4 Bid them tell their masters this. ‘Here is .what the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: Tell your masters 5 that it is I who made the earth, with all the men and beasts upon the surface of the earth, by my great power and outstretched arm. I give it to anyone whom I choose. 6 I have now given all these lands into the hand of my servant Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon; I have given him even the wild beasts for his service. 7 [[All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, till the time comes round for his own land; and then many a nation and many a great king shall make him a slave.]] 8 Any nation or kingdom that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation, says the Eternal, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, till I bring it under his sway. 9 Pay you no heed to your prophets and seers and dreamers and soothsayers and sorcerers, who tell you that you will not be subject to the king of Babylon. 10 It is a lie that they prophesy to you--it will only banish you far from your land. 11 Whereas any nation that puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will let that nation stay on in its own land, says the Eternal; they shall till the land and live in it.” ’

12 Jeremiah gave the very same message to Zedekiah, king of Judah. “Put your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,” he said; “serve him and his people, and you shall live. 13 Why should you and your people die by the sword and the famine and the pestilence with which the Eternal has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14 Never heed what the prophets say, when they tell you not to be subject to the king of Babylon. It is a lie that they prophesy to you. 15 I never sent them, says the Eternal, yet they prophesy falsely in my name; it will only end in your being driven out to perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

16 To the priests and all the people Jeremiah also spoke as follows: “This is the Eternal’s order: never heed what your prophets say when they tell you that the vessels of the Eternal’s temple are soon to be brought back from Babylon. 17 It is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 18 If they are really prophets, if they have the Eternal’s word, let them plead with the Lord of hosts that the vessels which are left in the temple of the Eternal and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, may not be taken to Babylon. 19 As for [[the columns and the tank and the pedestals and]] the rest of the vessels left in this city, 20 which Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon did not remove when he bore off to exile Jekoniah [[the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah]] from Jerusalem [[to Babylon, with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem]], 21 this is what the Lord [[of hosts, the God of Israel,]] says [[with regard to the vessels that remain in the temple of the Eternal, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem]]: 22 ‘They shall be taken to Babylon [[and remain there till the day I remember them]], says the Eternal[[; then I will bring them up and restore them to this place]].’ ”