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Jeremiah 27:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation? "

Jeremiah 27:17

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15 For I have not sent them,” says the LORD, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, the LORD says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.

17 Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

18 But if they are prophets, and if the LORD’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the LORD’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

19 For the LORD of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

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From This Chapter

Jeremiah 27:1

"In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"

Jeremiah 27:2

"the LORD says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck."

Jeremiah 27:3

"Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah."

Jeremiah 27:4

"Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:"

Jeremiah 27:5

"‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me."

Jeremiah 27:6

"Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him."

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