Jeremiah 27

1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,Cross-references: 2Chr 36:11 · Jer 26:1 · Jer 27:3 · Jer 27:12 · Jer 27:19 · Jer 28:1

2Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:30 · Isa 20:2 · Jer 13:1 · Jer 18:2 · Jer 19:1 · Jer 27:12 · +6 more

3Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:13 · Jer 25:19 · Jer 47:1 · Ezek 17:15 · Ezek 25:1 · Ezek 29:18 · +1 more

4Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:Cross-references: Ex 5:1 · Jer 10:10 · Jer 10:16 · Jer 25:27 · Jer 51:19

5‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Gen 9:2 · Gen 9:6 · Ex 20:11 · Deut 2:7 · Deut 2:9 · +36 more

6Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.Cross-references: Ps 50:10 · Isa 44:28 · Jer 21:7 · Jer 24:1 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 28:14 · +5 more

7All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:20 · Ps 37:13 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 14:4 · +15 more

8“‘“‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.Cross-references: Jer 24:10 · Jer 25:28 · Jer 38:17 · Jer 40:9 · Jer 42:10 · Jer 52:3 · +2 more

9But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”Cross-references: Ex 7:11 · Deut 18:10 · Deut 18:14 · Josh 13:22 · Isa 8:19 · Isa 47:12 · +14 more

10for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.Cross-references: Jer 23:25 · Jer 27:14 · Jer 28:16 · Jer 32:31 · Lam 2:14 · Ezek 14:9

11But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’”’”Cross-references: Jer 21:9 · Jer 27:2 · Jer 27:8 · Jer 27:12 · Jer 38:2 · Jer 40:9 · +1 more

12I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah 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.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:11 · Prov 1:33 · Jer 27:2 · Jer 27:8 · Jer 28:1 · Jer 38:17 · +1 more

13Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?Cross-references: Prov 8:36 · Jer 24:9 · Jer 27:8 · Jer 38:2 · Jer 38:20 · Ezek 14:21 · +3 more

14Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:22 · Isa 28:10 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:21 · Jer 23:25 · Jer 27:9 · +10 more

15For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”Cross-references: 2Chr 18:17 · 2Chr 25:16 · Jer 6:13 · Jer 8:10 · Jer 14:15 · Jer 20:6 · +17 more

16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:13 · 2Chr 36:7 · Isa 9:15 · Jer 27:10 · Jer 27:14 · Jer 28:3 · +1 more

17Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?Cross-references: Jer 7:34 · Jer 27:11 · Jer 38:17 · Jer 38:23

18But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.Cross-references: Gen 18:24 · Gen 20:17 · 1Sam 7:8 · 1Sam 12:19 · 1Sam 12:23 · 1Ki 18:24 · +12 more

19For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,Cross-references: 1Ki 7:15 · 2Ki 25:13 · 2Ki 25:17 · 2Chr 4:2 · Jer 52:17

20which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—Cross-references: 2Ki 24:14 · 2Chr 36:10 · 2Chr 36:18 · Jer 22:28 · Jer 24:1

21yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

22‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’”Cross-references: 2Ki 24:13 · 2Ki 25:13 · 2Chr 36:17 · 2Chr 36:21 · Ezra 1:7 · Ezra 1:11 · +12 more