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Jeremiah 27:10

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for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.

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Jeremiah 27:10 in other translations

for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

Jeremiah 27:10 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 27:10 in context

  1. 8“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
  2. 9But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”
  3. 10for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.
  4. 11But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’ ” ’ ”
  5. 12I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.