Verse 17
Jeremiah 27:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should
this city become a desolation?
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵי/הֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽ/חְי֑וּ לָ֧/מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָ/עִ֥יר הַ/זֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה
English Translation
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a ruin?
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Chapter 27 Context
1
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
this word came to Jerem...
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2
the LORD says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
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3
Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king
of the children of Ammon, to th...
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4
Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies, the
God (Elohim) of Israel says,...
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5
‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface
of the earth by my great po...
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6
Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon, my servant. I...
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7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the
time of his own land comes. Th...
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8
“‘“‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve the same Nebuc...
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9
But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your
dreams, to your soothsayers...
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10
for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so
that I would drive you out, and...
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11
But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon and serves him, that nat...
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12
I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words,
saying, “Bring your necks under the...
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13
Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence, as the LO...
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14
Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying,
‘You shall not serve the king of...
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15
For I have not sent them,” says the LORD, “but they prophesy falsely
in my name; that I may drive yo...
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16
Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,
the LORD says, “Don’t listen to the word...
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17
Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should
this city become a desolation?
18
But if they are prophets, and if the LORD’s word is with them, let
them now make intercession to the...
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19
For the LORD of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the
sea, concerning the bases, and co...
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20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away
captive Jeconiah the son of Je...
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21
yes, the LORD of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says concerning the vessels
that are left in th...
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22
‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the
day that I visit them,’ says the...
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