Jeremiah 27:2

The NET Bible®

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

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 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 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah early in the reign of Josiah's son, King Zedekiah of Judah. ² The Lord told me, "Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck. ³ Use it to send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon. Send them through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah. ⁴ Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to give your masters this message. ⁵ "I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit. ⁶ I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him. ⁷ All nations must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon. ⁸ But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the Lord , affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it. ⁹ So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.' ¹⁰ Do not listen to them, because their prophecies are lies. Listening to them will only cause you to be taken far away from your native land. I will drive you out of your country and you will die in exile.

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
The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

1 Samuel 20:3
Taking an oath, David again said, "Your father is very much aware of the fact that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, ‘Don't let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.' But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!"

Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"

Isaiah 38:3
"Please, Lord . Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Mark 13:35
Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return—whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn—

James 4:14
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

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.