Jeremiah 27:2

New Revised Standard

Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them 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 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.

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 King Zedekiah son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord . ² Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them on your neck. ³ Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah. ⁴ Give them this charge for their masters: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: ⁵ It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever I please. ⁶ Now I have given all these lands into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him even the wild animals of the field to serve him. ⁷ All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave. ⁸ But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord , until I have completed its destruction by his hand. ⁹ You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon." ¹⁰ For they are prophesying a lie to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land; I will drive you out, and you will 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
When the time of Israel's death drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. 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 again to the land of your ancestors.

1 Samuel 20:3
But David also swore, "Your father knows well that you like me; and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.' But truly, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death."

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord : Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover."

Isaiah 38:3
"Remember now, O Lord , I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Mark 13:35
Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn,

James 4:14
Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while 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.