Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, “Thus says the Lord: With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.”
Jeremiah 27:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Thus the Lord said to me: Make for yourself yoke straps and bars and put them on your neck. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus says the Lord to me: Make for yourself thongs and yoke bars and put them on your neck, American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck; Common English Bible This is what the LORD said to me: Make a yoke of straps and bars and wear it on your neck. Catholic Public Domain Version "Thus says the Lord to me: Make bands and chains for yourself. And you shall place them on your neck. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands and chains, and thou shalt put them on thy neck. |
Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, “Thus says the Lord: With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.”
But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, says the Lord, to till it and to live there.
I spoke to King Zedekiah of Judah in the same way: Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more make a servant of him.
At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the dominion of Egypt, and its proud might shall come to an end; the city shall be covered by a cloud, and its daughter towns shall go into captivity.
Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.
This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings).
This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.