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2 Thus says YHWH to me: “Make for yourself bonds and yokes, and put them upon your neck. 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the sons of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon by the hand of the messengers having come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 And command them toward their masters to say: Thus says YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel; thus you? shall say to your? masters: 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I have given it to those whom it seemed right in My eyes. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and also the beasts of the field I have given to him to serve him. 7 And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and the son of his son, until the time of his own land comes—even it. And many nations and great kings will enslave him. 8 And it will come to pass that the nation and the kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon—with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I will punish that nation, a declaration of YHWH, until I have finished them by his hand. 9 And you?, do not listen to your? prophets, and to your? diviners, and to your? dreamers, and to your? soothsayers, and to your? sorcerers, whom they speak to you?, saying: ‘You? shall not serve the king of Babylon. 10 For they prophesy a lie to you? so as to remove you? far from your? land; and I will drive you? out, and you? will perish. 11 And the nation that brings their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, then will I let them rest upon their own land,” a declaration of YHWH, and they shall work it and dwell in it. 12 And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke 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. Jeremiah 27:2-12, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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