Jer 27:2-11 | ESV | STEP | Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself straps and yoke-bars , and put them on your neck .

Jeremiah 27:2-11

2 Thus the Lord said to me: ^a“Make yourself straps and ^byoke-bars, and put them on your neck. 3 Send word ^{▼▼Hebrew Send them} to the king of ^dEdom, the king of ^eMoab, the king of the sons of ^fAmmon, the king of ^gTyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: 5 “It is I who ^hby my great power and my outstretched arm ⁱhave made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, ^jand I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 ^kNow I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ^lmy servant, ^mand I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 ⁿAll the nations shall serve him and ^ohis son and ^phis grandson, ^quntil the time of his own land comes. ^rThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

8 “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^sand put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation ^twith the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand. 9 So ^udo not listen to your ^vprophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your ^wfortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 ^xFor it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. 11 ^yBut any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord.”’”