Thomson(i)
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2 Thus said the Lord, Make thee chains 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 Ammonites and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the hands of their ambassadors, who are coming to meet those sent to Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda:
4 and thou shalt charge them to say to their masters, Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, Thus shall you say to your masters,
5 As I have made the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, I can give it to whom it seemeth good in mine eyes.
6 I have given this land to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon to serve him, and the beasts of the field to work for him.
7 [Omitted]
8 And the nation and the kingdom; all who will not submit their neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon, them I will visit with sword and famine, said the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
9 Therefore hearken not to your false prophets, nor to them who divine or dream for you, nor to your augurers, nor your sorcerers who say, You shall not serve the king of Babylon;
10 for they prophesy lies to you to remove you far from your land.
11 But the nation which shall submit its neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon and work for him, that nation I will leave in its own hand. It laboureth for him and it shall dwell therein.
12 So I spoke to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Submit your neck to work for the king of Babylon. For these men prophesy falsehoods to you;
13 [Omitted]
14 [Omitted]
15 for I have not sent them, saith the Lord. They indeed prophesy in my name for falsehood to destroy you; therefore you shall be destroyed, both you and your prophets who prophesy to you for unjust falsehood.
16 To you and to all this people and to the priests I have spoken, saying, Thus said the Lord,
17 Hearken not to the words of those prophets who prophesy to you saying, "Behold the vessels of the house of the Lord shall be brought back from Babylon." For they prophesy falsities to you. I have not sent them.
18 If they are prophets; if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me. For thus saith the Lord, Even the residue of the vessels which the king of Babylon did not take when he carried away Jechonias from Jerusalem, shall go to Babylon, saith the Lord.