Jeremiah 27:2 This is what the LORD said to me: "Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
This is what the LORD said to me: "Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.

English Standard Version
Thus the LORD said to me: “Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

New American Standard Bible
thus says the LORD to me-- "Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

King James Bible
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD said to me: Make chains and yoke bars for yourself and put them on your neck.

International Standard Version
this is what the LORD says to me: "Make restraints and yokes for yourself and put them on your neck.

American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck;

Young's Literal Translation
'Thus said Jehovah unto me, Make to thee bands and yokes,

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:11
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, said the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

Jeremiah 28:10
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.

Jeremiah 28:13
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus said the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you shall make for them yokes of iron.

Jeremiah 30:8
For it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

Ezekiel 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 30:18
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:1-11 Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts his right to dispose of kingdoms as he pleases. Whatever any have of the good things of this world, it is what God sees fit to give; we should therefore be content. The things of this world are not the best things, for the Lord often gives the largest share to bad men. Dominion is not founded in grace. Those who will not serve the God who made them, shall justly be made to serve their enemies that seek to ruin them. Jeremiah urges them to prevent their destruction, by submission. A meek spirit, by quiet submission to the hardest turns of providence, makes the best of what is bad. Many persons may escape destroying providences, by submitting to humbling providences. It is better to take up a light cross in our way, than to pull a heavier on our own heads. The poor in spirit, the meek and humble, enjoy comfort, and avoid many miseries to which the high-spirited are exposed. It must, in all cases, be our interest to obey God's will.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. bonds—by which the yoke is made fast to the neck (Jer 5:5).

yokes—literally, the carved piece of wood attached at both ends to the two yokes on the necks of a pair of oxen, so as to connect them. Here the yoke itself. The plural is used, as he was to wear one himself, and give the others to the ambassadors; (Jer 27:3; 28:10, 12) proves that the symbolical act was in this instance (though not in others, Jer 25:15) actually done (compare Isa 20:2, &c.; Eze 12:3, 11, 18).