Command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Tell this to your masters: “By my great strength and outstretched arm,(A) I made the earth,(B) and the people, and animals on the face of the earth. I give it to anyone I please.[a](C) So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of my servant(D) Nebuchadnezzar,(E) king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him. All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.(F)

“‘“As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not place its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish by sword, famine, and plague—this is the Lord’s declaration—until through him I have destroyed it. So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners,(G) dreamers, fortune-tellers,(H) or sorcerers(I) who say to you, ‘Don’t serve the king of Babylon!’ 10 They are prophesying a lie(J) to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish. 11 But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate[b] it and reside in it. This is the Lord’s declaration.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 27:5 Lit to whomever is upright in my eyes
  2. 27:11 Lit work

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