Jeremiah 27:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?”
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“Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 27:17 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- Jeremiah 27:11But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 38:17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
- Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
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