Jeremiah 34
2 Thus said the Lord; Make to thyself
bonds and yokes, and put them about thy neck,
3 and thou shalt send them to the king
of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon,
and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their
messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.
4 And thou shalt commission them to
say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to
your lords; 5 I have made the earth by
my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it
shall seem good in mine eyes.
6 I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for
him. 8 And the nation and kingdom, all
that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with
sword and famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by
his hand.
9 And hearken ye not to your false
prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretel events by
dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by
no means work for the king of Babylon:
10 for they prophesy lies to you, to
remove you far from your land. 11 But
the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and
serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and
dwell in it.
12 I spoke also to Sedekias king of
Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into
the yoke,
14 and serve the king of Babylon. For
they prophesy unrighteous words to you,
15 for I sent them not, saith the
Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, that I
might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously
prophesy lies to you.
16 I spoke to you, and to all this
people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Hearken not to the
words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous
words. I sent them not.
18 If they are prophets, and if the
word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.
19 And as for the remaining vessels,
20 which the king of Babylon took
not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,
22 they shall go into Babylon, saith
the Lord.