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I give it to anyone I please. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now I have handed all these countries over to my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made wild animals serve him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>" 'Suppose nations or kingdoms won't serve or surrender to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will punish those nations by wars, famines, and plagues, until I have put an end to them by Nebuchadnezzar's power, declares the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Don't listen to prophets, mediums, interpreters of dreams, fortunetellers, or sorcerers who tell you that you'll never serve the king of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They are prophesying lies to you. They will cause you to be taken far from your lands. I'll scatter you, and you will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But suppose a nation surrenders to the king of Babylon and serves him. I will let it stay in its own land. People will farm the land and live on it,' " declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I spoke the same message to King Zedekiah of Judah, "Surrender to the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and you will stay alive. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why should you and your people die in wars, famines, and plagues? The LORD has threatened the nations that don't serve the king of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Don't listen to the prophets who tell you that you'll never serve the king of Babylon. They are prophesying lies to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I didn't send them, declares the LORD. They prophesy lies in my name. So I will scatter you, and you and the prophets will die."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I also spoke this message to the priests and all the people. "This is what the LORD said to me: Don't listen to the prophets who tell you that the utensils of the LORD's temple will be brought back from Babylon soon. They are prophesying lies to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Don't listen to them. Instead, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city be turned into rubble? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If they are prophets and the LORD is speaking to them, they should beg the LORD of Armies not to allow the utensils that are left in the LORD's temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem to be taken away to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiakin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. But he didn't take the pillars, the bronze pool, the stands, and the rest of the utensils that are left in this city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says about the utensils that are left in the LORD's temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They will be taken to Babylon and stay there until I come for them, declares the LORD. I will take them from there and bring them back to this place."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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