⁸ “But it will be that the nation or kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague,” declares^[a] Yahweh, “until I have destroyed it with my hand. ⁹ And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are saying,^[b] ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ ¹⁰ For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.