Jeremiah 27:4-11
Christian Standard Bible
4 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: 5 “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) 6 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. 7 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)
8 “‘“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. 9 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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