Jeremiah 27:2

Geneva Bible

Thus saith the Lorde to me, Make thee bonds, and yokes, & put them vpon thy necke,

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;

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.

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

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 reigne of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah came this worde vnto Ieremiah from the Lorde, saying, ² Thus saith the Lorde to me, Make thee bonds, and yokes, & put them vpon thy necke, ³ And send them to the King of Edom, and to the King of Moab, & to the King of the Ammonites, and to the King of Tyrus, & to the king of Zidon, by the hande of the messengers which come to Ierusale vnto Zedekiah ye king of Iudah, ⁴ And commande them to saye vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto your masters, ⁵ I haue made the earth, the ma, and the beast that are vpon the groud, by my great power, and by my outstreched arme, and haue giuen it vnto whom it pleased me. ⁶ But nowe I haue giuen all these landes into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel my seruant, and the beastes of the fielde haue I also giuen him to serue him. ⁷ And all nations shall serue him, and his sonne, and his sonnes sonne vntill the very time of his lande come also: then many nations and great Kinges shall serue themselues of him. ⁸ And the nation and kingdome which will not serue the same Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel, and that will not put their necke vnder the yoke of the King of Babel, the same nation will I visite, saith the Lord, with the sworde, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, vntill I haue wholy giuen them into his hands. ⁹ Therefore heare not your prophets nor your southsayers, nor your dreamers, nor your inchanters, nor your sorcerers, which say vnto you thus, Ye shall not serue the King of Babel. ¹⁰ For they prophecie a lie vnto you to cause you to goe farre from your lande, and that I should cast you out, and you 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
Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.

1 Samuel 20:3
And Dauid sware againe and sayd, Thy father knoweth that I haue found grace in thine eyes: therefore he thinketh, Ionathan shall not knowe it, lest he be sorie: but in deede, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, there is but a step betweene me and death.

Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest.

Isaiah 38:1
About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto the death, and the Prophet Isaiah sonne of Amoz came vnto him, and sayd vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, Put thine house in an order, for thou shalt dye, and not liue.

Isaiah 38:3
And saide, I beseeche thee, Lord, remember nowe howe I haue walked before thee in trueth, and with a perfite heart, & haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.

Mark 13:35
Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

James 4:14
(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward 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.