Jeremiah 27:17
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New International Version (©2011)
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this city become a ruin?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Do not listen to them. Surrender to the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this whole city be destroyed?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Don't listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon and you'll live. Why should this city become a ruin?

NET Bible (©2006)
Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Don't listen to them. Instead, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city be turned into rubble?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?

American King James Version
Listen not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?

American Standard Version
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?

Darby Bible Translation
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?

English Revised Version
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?

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

Young's Literal Translation
Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:12-18 Jeremiah persuades the king of Judah to surrender to the king of Babylon. Is it their wisdom to submit to the heavy iron yoke of a cruel tyrant, that they may secure their lives; and is it not much more our wisdom to submit to the pleasant and easy yoke of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, that we may secure our souls? It were well if sinners would be afraid of the destruction threatened against all who will not have Christ to reign over them. Why should they die the second death, infinitely worse than that by sword and famine, when they may submit and live? And those who encourage sinners to go on in sinful ways, will perish with them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hearken not unto them,.... The false prophets:

serve the king of Babylon, and live; pay homage and tribute to him; which is the way to live in your own land, and enjoy the benefits of that, and of the temple worship; which, if not, you will be utterly deprived of:

wherefore should this city be laid waste? as it certainly will, should you rebel against the king of Babylon; and as it was in a few years after, when they did.

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The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
…16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus said the LORD; Listen not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you. 17Listen not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste? 18But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. …

Jeremiah 7:34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
Jeremiah 38:17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.
Jeremiah 42:11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands.