Jeremiah 27:2

English Revised Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord said to me: “Make chains and yoke bars for yourself and put them on your neck.

Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the LORD to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

King James Version
Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

English Standard Version
Thus the Lord said to me: "Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

New American Standard Bible
this is what the LORD has said to me: "Make for yourself restraints and yokes and put them on your neck,

New Century Version
This is what the Lord said to me: "Make a yoke out of straps and poles, and put it on the back of your neck.

Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD to me, "Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lorde to me, Make thee bonds, and yokes, & put them vpon thy necke,

Legacy Standard Bible
thus says Yahweh to me—"Make for yourself bonds and the bars of a yoke and put them on your neck,

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

Complete Jewish Bible
" Adonai says this to me: ‘Make yourself a yoke of straps and crossbars, and put it on your neck.

Darby Translation
Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck;

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord said to me: "Jeremiah, make a yoke out of straps and poles. Put that yoke on the back of your neck.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD to me: Make yourself yokes and bands, and put them on your neck,

Good News Translation
to make myself a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and to put it on my neck.

Lexham English Bible
thus said Yahweh to me—"Make for yourself fetters and yokes and put them on your neck,

Literal Translation
So says Jehovah to me, Make bonds and yokes for yourself, and put them on your neck.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Make the bondes & chaynes, and put them aboute thy neck,

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

Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

King James Version (1611)
Thus sayth the Lord to me, Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them vpon thy necke.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make thee bondes and chaynes, and put them about thy necke,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress them not: say ye, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord seith these thingis to me, Make thou to thee boondis and chaynes, and thou schalt putte tho in thi necke;

Update Bible Version
This is what Yahweh said to me: Make bonds and bars for yourself, and put them on your neck;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

New English Translation
The Lord told me, "Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

New King James Version
"Thus says the LORD to me: "Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,

New Living Translation
This is what the Lord said to me: "Make a yoke, and fasten it on your neck with leather straps.

New Life Bible
The Lord said to me, "Make ropes and a cross-bar for carrying a load, and put them on your neck.

New Revised Standard
Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them on your neck.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, said Yahweh unto me, Make thee, bonds and bars, and put them upon thine own neck.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

Revised Standard Version
Thus the LORD said to me: "Make yourself thongs and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thus said Jehovah unto me, Make to thee bands and yokes,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
thus says the LORD to me—"Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

Contextual Overview

¹ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ² Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck; ³ and send them to the king of Edom, 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 Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; ⁴ and give them a charge unto their masters; saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters; ⁵ I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me. ⁶ And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him. ⁷ And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. ⁹ But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: ¹⁰ for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out and ye should perish.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saith the Lord: or, hath the Lord said, Amos 7:1, Amos 7:4

Make: Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 28:10-14

put: Jeremiah 13:1-11, Jeremiah 18:2-10, Jeremiah 19:1-11, Jeremiah 28:10, 1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31, Isaiah 20:2-4, Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 12:1-28, Ezekiel 24:3-12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:15 - anoint 1 Kings 20:35 - Smite me 1 Kings 22:11 - horns of iron 2 Chronicles 18:10 - horns of iron Nehemiah 3:5 - put not Jeremiah 1:10 - I have Jeremiah 27:11 - General Jeremiah 28:2 - I Jeremiah 28:11 - Even Jeremiah 30:8 - I Lamentations 5:5 - Our necks are under persecution Ezekiel 7:23 - a chain Ezekiel 12:3 - prepare

Cross-References

Genesis 47:29
And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

Genesis 48:21
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

1 Samuel 20:3
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Isaiah 38:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Isaiah 38:3
and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Mark 13:35
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

James 4:14
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord to me, make thee bonds and yokes,.... The yokes were made of wood, as appears from Jeremiah 28:13; and the bonds were strings or thongs, which bound the yoke together, that it might not slip off the neck, on which it was put:

and put them upon thy neck; not all of them together, but one after another, at different times; and this was very significant; for the prophet being seen abroad with a yoke upon his neck, it would be natural to inquire the meaning of it; when they would be told it was to signify the subjection of Judah, and so of other nations, to the king of Babylon; and that he did wear at times such a yoke, even fifteen years after, in the fourth of Zedekiah's reign, appears from Jeremiah 28:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yokes - Two curved pieces of wood, the one put over the neck of the ox, the other under, and then fastened together by bonds or cords (compare Psalms 2:3). Compare the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 27:2. Make thee bonds and yokes — Probably yokes with straps, by which they were attached to the neck. This was a symbolical action, to show that the several kings mentioned below should be brought under the dominion of the Chaldeans.