Jeremiah 27:17

In 10 translations

BSB

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

KJV

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

WEB

Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

ASV

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

LSV

You do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live! Why is this city a ruin?

YLT

Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

DBY

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?

DRC

Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?

GNV

Heare them not, but serue the King of Babel, that ye may liue: wherefore shoulde this citie be desolate?

JPS

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?

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אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת־מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽחְי֑וּ לָ֧מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה׃

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• Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
• Jeremiah 38:17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and…
• Jeremiah 27:11–13But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.” And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the…
• Jeremiah 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

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