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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 27
In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias
king of Juda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord,
saying:
Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains:
and thou shalt put them on thy neck.
And thou shalt send them to the of Edom, and to the
king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon,
and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by
the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem
to Sedecias the king of Juda.
And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus
shall you say to your masters:
I made the earth, and the men, and the beasts that are
upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by
my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it
seemed good in my eyes.
And now I have given all these lands into the hand of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover
also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve
him.
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
son's son: till the time come for his land and himself:
and many nations and great kings shall serve him.
But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck
under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit
upon that nation with the sword, and with famine, and
with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them
by his hand.
Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners,
and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say
to you: You shall not serve the king Babylon.
For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from
your country, and east you out, and to make you perish.
But the nation that shall bend down their neck under
the yoke of the king Babylon, and shall serve him: Will
let them remain in their own land, saith the Lord: and
they shall till it, and dwell in it.
And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to
all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under
the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and
his people, and you shall live.
Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword,
and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath
spoken against the nation that will not serve the king
of Babylon?
Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to
you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they
tell you a lie.
For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy
in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may
perish, both you, and the prophets that prophesy to
you.
I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying:
Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your
prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels
of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again
from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of
Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be
given up to desolation?
But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be
in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord
of hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house
of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and
in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts d to the pillars, and
to the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the
vessels that remain in this city:
Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take,
when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the
king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the
great men of Juda and Jerusalem.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,
to the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord,
and in the house of the king of Juda and Jerusalem:
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall
be until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord:
and I will cause them to be brought, and to be re- stored
in this place. |
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