Bible verse
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
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.
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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