Jeremiah 34:1-35:19 Thus said the Lord; Make to yourself bonds and yokes, and put them about your neck,

LXX2012⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Thus said the Lord; Make to yourself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about your neck, ³ and you shall send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda. ⁴ And you shall commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall you⌃ say to your lords; ⁵ I have made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whoever it shall seem [good] in mine eyes. ⁶ I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him. ⁸ And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand. ⁹ And listen you⌃ not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, You⌃ shall by no means work for the king of Babylon: ¹⁰ for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land. ¹¹ But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it. ¹² I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the king of Babylon. ¹⁴ For they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you, ¹⁵ for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy [in] my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you⌃ should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you. ¹⁶ I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous [words]. ¹⁷ I sent them not. ¹⁸ If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said. ¹⁹ And as for the remaining vessels, ²⁰ which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem, ²² they shall go into Babylon, says the Lord. ³⁵ ¹ And it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the fifth month, [that] Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from Gabaon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying, ² Thus says the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. ³ Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord, ⁴ and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. ⁵ Then Jeremias spoke to Ananias in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord, ⁶ and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm your word which you do prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place. ⁷ Nevertheless hear you⌃ the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people. ⁸ The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war. ⁹ [As for] the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come [to pass], they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in truth. ¹⁰ Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces. ¹¹ And Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremias went his way. ¹² And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Ananias had broken the yokes off his neck, saying, ¹³ Go and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus says the Lord; You have broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron. ¹⁴ For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon. ¹⁵ And Jeremias said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent you; and you have caused this people to trust in unrighteousness. ¹⁶ Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I [will] cast you off from the face of the earth: this year you shall die. ¹⁷ So he died in the seventh month.