Jeremiah 27:17
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Attention Babylon City Desolate Desolation Hearken Live Ruin Servants Serve Waste Wherefore Yourselves
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English Standard Version
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

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

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

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

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

NET Bible
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
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
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?
Lexicon
Hearken
shama`  (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
not unto them serve
`abad  (aw-bad')
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
the king
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
of Babylon
Babel  (baw-bel')
confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire -- Babel, Babylon.
and live
chayah  (khaw-yaw')
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
wherefore should this city
`iyr  (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
be laid waste
chorbah  (khor-baw')
drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation -- decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
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