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and I can give them to whomever I think fit.<a id="ren30027005-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027005-a">a</a> <span id="v30027006" class="ver">6</span>Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; even the wild animals I have given him to serve him.<a id="ren30027006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027006-b">b</a> <span id="v30027007" class="ver">7</span>All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time comes for him and his land; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.<a id="ren30027007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027007-c">c</a> <span id="v30027008" class="ver">8</span>Meanwhile, the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, or bend its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and pestilence—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—until I finish them by his hand.<a id="ren30027008-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027008-d">d</a></p> <p><span id="v30027009" class="ver">9</span>You, however, must not listen to your prophets,<a id="rfn30027009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30027009-1">*</a> to your diviners and dreamers, to your soothsayers and sorcerers, who say to you, “Do not serve the king of Babylon.”<a id="ren30027009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027009-e">e</a> <span id="v30027010" class="ver">10</span>For they prophesy lies to you, so as to drive you far from your land, making me banish you so that you perish.<a id="ren30027010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027010-f">f</a> <span id="v30027011" class="ver">11</span>The people that bends the neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon to serve him, I will leave in peace on its own land—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—to cultivate it and dwell on it.<a id="ren30027011-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027011-g">g</a></p> <p><span id="v30027012" class="ver">12</span>To Zedekiah, king of Judah, I spoke the same words: Bend your necks to the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, so that you may live.<a id="ren30027012-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027012-h">h</a> <span id="v30027013" class="ver">13</span>Why should you and your people die by sword, famine, and pestilence, in accordance with the word the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has spoken to the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?<a id="ren30027013-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027013-i">i</a> <span id="v30027014" class="ver">14</span>Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, “Do not serve the king of Babylon.” They prophesy lies to you!<a id="ren30027014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027014-j">j</a> <span id="v30027015" class="ver">15</span>I did not send them—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—but they prophesy falsely in my name. As a result I must banish you, and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.<a id="ren30027015-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027015-k">k</a></p> <p><span id="v30027016" class="ver">16</span><a id="ren30027016-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027016-l">l</a> To the priests and to all the people I said: Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you: “The vessels of the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will soon be brought back from Babylon,” for they prophesy lies to you. <span id="v30027017" class="ver">17</span>Do not listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon that you may live. Why should this city become rubble? <span id="v30027018" class="ver">18</span>If they were prophets, if the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> were with them, then they would intercede with the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts, that the vessels remaining in the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem should not also go to Babylon. <span id="v30027019" class="ver">19</span>For thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels remaining in this city, <span id="v30027020" class="ver">20</span>which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take when he exiled Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— <span id="v30027021" class="ver">21</span>thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels remaining in the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:<a id="ren30027021-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30027021-m">m</a> <span id="v30027022" class="ver">22</span>To Babylon they shall go, and there they shall remain, until the day I look for them—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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