²⁷ The trees will yield their fruit^(A) and the ground will yield its crops;^(B) the people will be secure^(C) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke^(D) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.^(E)

² This is what the Lord said to me: “Make a yoke^(A) out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.

¹⁰ Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke^(A) off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,

¹³ “Go and tell Hananiah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but in its place you will get a yoke of iron.

⁴ I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin^[a](A) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”^(B)