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1 In the be­gin­ning of the reign of Je­hoiakim the son of Josi­ah king of Ju­dah came this word unto Jeremi­ah from the LORD, say­ing, 2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Am­monites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zi­don, by the hand of the mes­sen­gers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah; 4 And com­mand them to say unto their mas­ters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Thus shall ye say unto your mas­ters; 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great pow­er and by my out­stretched arm, and have giv­en it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 6 And now have I giv­en all these lands into the hand of Neb­uchad­nez­zar the king of Baby­lon, my ser­vant; and the beasts of the field have I giv­en him also to serve him. 7 And all na­tions shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, un­til the very time of his land come: and then many na­tions and great kings shall serve them­selves of him. 8 And it shall come to pass, that the na­tion and king­dom which will not serve the same Neb­uchad­nez­zar the king of Baby­lon, and that will not put their neck un­der the yoke of the king of Baby­lon, that na­tion will I pun­ish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pesti­lence, un­til I have con­sumed them by his hand. 9 There­fore hear­ken not ye to your prophets, nor to your di­vin­ers, nor to your dream­ers, nor to your en­chanters, nor to your sor­cer­ers, which speak unto you, say­ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Baby­lon: 10 For they proph­esy a lie unto you, to re­move you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should per­ish. 11 But the na­tions that bring their neck un­der the yoke of the king of Baby­lon, and serve him, those will I let re­main still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell there­in. 12 I spake also to Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah ac­cord­ing to all these words, say­ing, Bring your necks un­der the yoke of the king of Baby­lon, and serve him and his peo­ple, and live. 13 Why will ye die, thou and thy peo­ple, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pesti­lence, as the LORD hath spo­ken against the na­tion that will not serve the king of Baby­lon? 14 There­fore hear­ken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, say­ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Baby­lon: for they proph­esy a lie unto you. 15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they proph­esy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might per­ish, ye, and the prophets that proph­esy unto you. 16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this peo­ple, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD; Hear­ken not to the words of your prophets that proph­esy unto you, say­ing, Be­hold, the ves­sels of the LORD'S house shall now short­ly be brought again from Baby­lon: for they proph­esy a lie unto you. 17 Hear­ken not unto them; serve the king of Baby­lon, and live: where­fore should this city be laid waste? 18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make in­ter­ces­sion to the LORD of hosts, that the ves­sels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Ju­dah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Baby­lon. 19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts con­cern­ing the pil­lars, and con­cern­ing the sea, and con­cern­ing the bases, and con­cern­ing the residue of the ves­sels that re­main in this city, 20 Which Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon took not, when he car­ried away cap­tive Je­co­ni­ah the son of Je­hoiakim king of Ju­dah from Jerusalem to Baby­lon, and all the no­bles of Ju­dah and Jerusalem; 21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael, con­cern­ing the ves­sels that re­main in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Ju­dah and of Jerusalem; 22 They shall be car­ried to Baby­lon, and there shall they be un­til the day that I vis­it them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and re­store them to this place.