American Standard Version
"Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation? "
— Jeremiah 27:17, American Standard Version
“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?”
“Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?”
“Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’””
“Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?”
“Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?”
“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?”
And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.
For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;