Bible verse

Jeremiah 27:2

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

Jeremiah 27:2 · BSB

Jeremiah 27:2 in context

The verses around it, from Jeremiah 27.

1 At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.

2 This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

3 Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

4 Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters:

5 By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

6 So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

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Jeremiah 27:2 in other translations

KJV

Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

ERV

Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

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